Final Project

Here is the video of my final project. The piece was inspired by Anne Sexton's poem, The Abortion. I used each stanza from the poem and made a phrase describing that stanza. The phrase the repeats three times is the line from the poem that repeats three times, "somebody who should have been born is gone". Hope you like it!

Final Project

Here is the link to my final project. I created a blog exploring how women are portrayed in film.

http://2013womenwritersfinal.blogspot.com/

BEYONCÈ

http://nprfreshair.tumblr.com/post/69893944129/beyonces-super-secret-album-just-dropped-this

Love that Beyoncè is able to shed some light and draw more attention to a very talented female writer!
She samples an excerpt from a Tedx Talk that discusses how we essentially raise women to be brides and force them into competition with each other only for a man.

And who doesn't love Beyoncè?!

Another Slate Article

I stumbled on this when reading the article Alyssa posted earlier. We've had many discussions about biologically gendered propensities which this article speaks to as well as being reminiscent of Emily martin's article on gendered assumptions shaping interpretations of scientific studies: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/12/hard_wired_brain_differences_critique_of_male_female_neuroscience_imaging.html

Final Project- Wanted to share

Just wanted to share picture of my aunt Sharon who I discussed today in class to give everyone a better understanding.  And I thought this quote was perfect for these pictures.

“In other words, it requires deliberate self-deception, including a constant effort to repress or block out unpleasant possibilities and 'negative' thoughts. The truly self-confident, or those who have in some way made their peace with the world and their destiny within it, do not need to expend effort censoring or otherwise controlling their thoughts.” 
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

http://www.gofundme.com/Kobel-Children-Education

Here is the link for the Education fund for my president of my sorority (Delta Phi Epsilon).  All of the funds go to the kids education and any amount of money would help, there is a brief description of what exactly happened on the link! Thank you all so much, happy holidays!

Fredonia Women Writing Anthology

Here is my email for all interest and questions
Paol9644 @fredonia.edu
Please make sure to emphasize intent in email subject.

I am looking for 10-12 submissions from Fredonia Women.
I am looking for women who have some written piece to share.
Any genre or type of writing is excepted and encouraged.
I will also be including a short biographical paragraph.
Please forward to your friends and peers if you think they'd be interested!
Submissions need to be in by Sunday 12\15

Good luck on finals and papers!
Holly Paolicelli

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