Two years ago I wrote a blog post about a book called A Life of One’s Own by Ilana Simons. When I first read the mix of Virginia Woolf wisdom and self-help psychology, I was going through a bad separation from an ex-boyfriend, and the advice I found in Simons’s book helped me both to cope and put the […]
Read More A Life of One’s Own – Part TwoSo, a new meme has gone viral and it’s got me wondering whether or not this is good for feminism. Oringinally, the blog “Fuck Yeah Ryan Gosling” posted pics of the actor with captions like the following: While all of these posts are’t entirely sexist and some of them seemed to indicate the opposite, I […]
Read More Me(me) and Ryan GoslingFor a writing class I am taking this semester, I was asked to write an epistolary essay—an essay in the form of a letter—and, as I had been studying and enjoying the writing and philosophy of Virginia Woolf earlier in the semester, I decided to address my essay to her in order to update her—and […]
Read More Revisiting Virginia Woolf’s “Androgynous Mind”I am not feeling like much of a feminist today. How could I, after spending two days in bed mourning the loss of my ex-boyfriend? We did the thing, I am sure you have experienced it or heard, where you get back together for a relationship death rattle after time apart. Aside from being the […]
Read More Virginia Woolf Saves the Day