Introduction

In light of the recent events in Virginia regarding anti-abortion legislation, and having recently finished reading, Women and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her by Susan Griffin, I have decided to start this blog to hopefully illustrate to women who may otherwise feel excluded from, or that feel that the feminist movement doesn't represent them, the necessity in fighting for our rights.  At a moment when we made strides for marriage equality, but seem to be losing ground with regard to our reproductive rights - I hope this blog will illustrate what the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr said in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."  It is my hope that this blog will provoke, inspire and rally women throughout our Nation and the World. Through the juxtaposition of news articles, passages from Women and Nature, and visual imagery I hope that we will find in each other common ground too often hidden behind colors, flags, religion and sexuality, and stand up for ourselves and for our children, our daughters, as our predecessors stood up for us.

"These words are written for those of us whose language is not heard, whose words have been stolen or erased, those robbed of language, who are called voiceless or mute, even the earthworms, even the shellfish and the sponges, for those of us who speak our own language."  

Borrowed from the dedication page of The Roaring Inside Her, by Susan Griffin, 1978.
Published by Harper & Row Publishers 

I will state my case here for using large sections of your fine book that may stretch the limits of fair use. I have my own voice, it is both the voice every college student in America is entitled to, that the internet grants me, of remix and mashup, and my professional voice as an Art Historian/Critic in training. I lean on a combination of your voice, Susan and my internet voice because of the power in the union, because your work should be read by more people and this is one way of making it possible. I use your voice because we share the same goals, and I hope for that you will forgive me and support me.


I encourage everyone to support Susan's treatise by buying a copy at your local bookseller, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1578050472/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller= or http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/women-and-nature-susan-griffin/1102215121