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Too Much

October 11th, 2016 by Sallie Bingham in Politics 14 Comments

Damnatio ad bestias. Third-century AD mosaic in the Museum of El Djem (Tunisia)

I’ve avoided writing about what is going on in our presidential election, not wanting to focus more attention on this ignoble display. But Sunday night was too much.

In Politics Hillary Clinton Donald Trump 16 Favorites of 2016

At Last

September 27th, 2016 by Sallie Bingham in Politics 4 Comments

Presidential Debate 2016

We are debaters; we are leaders; we are women who have learned a lot of the lessons of the past… we now know how to defend ourselves, both literally and legally.

In Politics Hillary Clinton Donald Trump

Mr. Trump

February 21st, 2016 by Sallie Bingham in Politics 13 Comments

Donald Trump

We need to be alert, this strange campaign season, to the way language is being distorted, subtly, to convey certain points of view.

In Politics Hillary Clinton Donald Trump

Horrors

February 10th, 2016 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Politics 38 Comments

Hillary Clinton

It is not too late for us women to wake up and realize what a woman president could do for all of us.

In Women, Politics Hillary Clinton Bernie Sanders 16 Favorites of 2016

 

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Taken By The Shawnee

Taken By The Shawnee

July 6th, 2025
Sallie Bingham introduces and reads from her latest work, Taken by the Shawnee.
Visiting Linda Stein

Visiting Linda Stein

March 3rd, 2025
Back on October 28th, 2008, I visited artist Linda Stein's studio in New York City and tried on a few of her handmade suits of armor.

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Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

November 8th, 2024
This event was recorded November 1, 2024 in Taos, NM at SOMOS Salon & Bookshop by KCEI Radio, Red River/Taos and broadcast on November 8, 2024.
Taken by the Shawnee Reading

Taken by the Shawnee Reading

September 1st, 2024
This reading took place at The Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe, New Mexico in August of 2024.

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Years ago a man I was in love with persuaded me to have a large fish pond dug near my studio. I think it was his attempt to be part of my necessarily solitary life there; like other such attempts it failed—and now I'm left with the fish pond! https://buff.ly/fGgnN39 #Koi #KoiPond

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Our wisdom outlasts kingdoms and democracies and tyrannies. It is for all places all people and all times. Unfortunately our wisdom can be bought, suborned, which is what I see in all the pretty women around Mr. T. "Lady Wisdom": https://buff.ly/mKAYBnf #HagiaSophia #DonaldTrump

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Sallie Bingham's latest is a captivating account of ancestor's ordeal
Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican

“I felt she was with me” during the process of writing the book, Bingham says. “I felt I wasn’t writing anything that would have seemed to her false or unreal.”

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