Sheroes of History

When I was 21 and just out of college, I felt, like many people that age do, a little aimless and a little rootless.…

“This is me, you understand?” Octavia St. Laurent declares triumphantly to the camera. “I love myself for who I am,…

In 1927, Edwina Parra was leading a charmed life as a 19-year-old debutante engaged to be married to a handsome…

The logline on Italian arthouse cinema writer-director Lina Wertmüller’s mark on her medium is that she was the…

The history of acting is full of stories about women who clawed their way into the business through a combination of…

In March 2017, Celeste Bell, the daughter of late punk trailblazer Poly Styrene, along with writer Zoë Howe and…

In 2008, two years after Edna Lewis, the Grand Dame of Southern Cooking died, Gourmet published an essay written by…

In 1904, tenement residents living on New York City’s Lower East Side stopped paying rent. The tenants, mostly…