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Sallie's posts tagged ‘Milk of Paradise’

What We Can’t Say Now

July 8th, 2020 by Sallie Bingham in Writing 1 Comment

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We need to define, and vigorously defend, the line between art and politics.

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Ferguson On My Mind

August 22nd, 2014 by Sallie Bingham in Politics, Kentucky 8 Comments

Ferguson On My Mind

It’s awkward, to say the least, for a privileged white woman like me to even attempt to touch the subject of racism; yet we are sometimes the women who knows its effects most intimately. Many of us were raised by a black woman and realized the limits put on their love for us when our mothers told them to stop kissing us and to add “Miss” to our first names. For me, that strange change marked my entrance into adolescence.

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That Old Baby of Mine…

March 18th, 2014 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Writing, Theater 1 Comment

Women's Project Theater

We were fearless back then, as we have continued to be.

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Ten Favorites: Starting Something — The Women’s Project, New York

December 26th, 2012 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Philanthropy, Writing, Theater 3 Comments

Milk of Paradise

It was the 1980’s and the three of us-Julia, Joan and I-were possessed by the spirit of the times-that energizing, reckless, laughing spirit that was born of the modern women’s movement. We could do anything. Even stir up trouble.

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Starting Something: The Women’s Project, New York

June 1st, 2012 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Philanthropy, Writing, Theater 2 Comments

Milk of Paradise

It was the 1980’s and the three of us-Julia, Joan and I-were possessed by the spirit of the times-that energizing, reckless, laughing spirit that was born of the modern women’s movement. We could do anything. Even stir up trouble.

In Women, Philanthropy, Writing, Theater Julia Miles Joan Vail Thorne Women's Project Milk of Paradise women's movement The American Place Theatre

 

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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.
On Memoir and My Writing Memoir/Writing History Workshops

On Memoir and My Writing Memoir/Writing History Workshops

February 11th, 2024
I think memoir writing is a much more serious task than it's often considered to be. It's not informal, it's not casual. It really is the writing of

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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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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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