by Admin | Aug 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
The one and only, Melody Graulich! We meet in Swan Valley, Idaho, set up at Camp Rendezvous, a small mom-and-pop shop with no tent campers but us. Melody herself had planned to throw her bag down under the stars, but late-day rain and her dog, who she thinks might...
by Admin | Aug 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
This post is written by Zainab Abdali, the graduate summer intern for the Living West as Feminists project. 9 am in Houston. I sit down at my desk with a cup of coffee, open up my laptop, and put my headphones on. I hit play. The conversation that I listen to is...
by Admin | Aug 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Missoula Public Library is Randi’s choice of place for our conversation. It is a state-of-the-art facility any city would envy, created by local architects A&E Design in partnership with Minneapolis-based Traci Lesneski of MSR Design, library-museum...
by Admin | Jul 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Our editor for this project, Clark Whitehorn, invites us to lunch. He works with University of Nebraska Press, but home is Helena, Montana. For more about Clark’s work, see here. From the start Clark has been behind this project, excited about its on-the-road...
by Admin | Jul 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’m reading “Spokane Kitten” as we drive north toward Cody, into the Heat Dome. Hot, hot, hot. Excerpted from a memoir in progress, “Spokane Kitten” tells the tale of Linda’s Montana childhood spent working around a mother’s addictions. José and I will...
by Admin | Jul 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
I am my only “interview” in the whole of Colorado. Without planning it, the days are a heart-filling personal journey. I see my aunt Adrian, her gravestone, and feel all the isolated depth of that windswept prairie place. I see my childhood friend in Colorado...
by Admin | Jul 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Amy Hamilton cares about Indigenous grasses and the problem of invasive species – which turns out to be a perfect metaphor for our deep talks about growing up White in the West. How whiteness relates to feminism and issues of communal accountability is on Amy’s mind,...
by Admin | Jul 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
In a pretty amazing accident of good timing, Melina’s very recent essay “Growing Up Chicana in the Heart of Anaya’s Aztlán” (2021) gives our conversations an edge and focus. The piece is a tribute to the great educator and writer Rudy Anaya, of course a major...
by Admin | Jul 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s the day before the 4th of July and we are driving north from Denton toward the Llano Estacado. José is behind the wheel and I’m not sure who of us first says that Priscilla’s house was for us a “feminist rest stop.” We are beginning to put this language of the...
by Admin | Jul 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
In the last couple of years Priscilla has been taking a lot of photos. She posts them on social media sites as #ChicanaBirder. The above photo contributed to the playwright and director Virginia Grise’s project on Instagram to welcome spring equinox 2021. For the...
