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Blog postBy Any Other Name: The Words We Call Ourselves When I write about the creative joy of women after midlife, one challenge is just what to call our cohort of women. When I wrote Aphrodite’s Pen: The Power of Writing Erotica After Midlife, I looked at how other authors name us, and found no consensus. “Juicy Crones,” “Wise Women,” “Women Past Midlife,” “Women Growing Bolder,” “Ripe Women,” “Ageless,” “Seasoned Women,” all have their adherents. There must be fifty ways to avoid saying “older.” <
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Blog postReading Guide for Aphrodite’s Pen Download PDF Version In the Introduction to Aphrodite’s Pen, Stella says it is important for older women to write erotica as a way to combat ageism. Do you agree or disagree with the author on this point? Did your opinion change as you read, and if so, how? The book combines writing activities, interviews with writers, and samples of their work. Did you learn skills from the activities that you want to incorporate into your writing practice? &n
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Blog postSee It Then Be It Geena Davis did not worry about all those stories of movie roles drying up for women in their forties, until it was her turn. After making a movie every year throughout her career, and starring in huge box office hits like Thelma and Louise and A League of Their Own, the actress made one movie in all of her forties.
Just one.
And, she says, it was not because she was fussy.
Then, after her daughter was born, Davis realized how few female charact -
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Blog postPower and Madam Pelosi We watched with interest as Nancy Pelosi fought to regain her role as House Speaker when the Democrats took the House after the November 2018 election. Congresswoman Pelosi is part of a generation of older leaders in government, including Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. No matter what we think of their politics, it is clear that Pelosi’s age is brought up more frequently as a reason for her to step aside than it is for male leaders in her age group. Pelosi, like
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Blog postThe world is made of stories, not atoms.
– Muriel Rukeyser
Myths are Ideas and stories and images that shape how we see the world. Celebrating and creating myth is one way to see and be seen.
A Sex Goddess for Older Women? Last year I asked a friend who is a mythology buff to name an erotic goddess for older women. He was stumped.
“The closest I can think of is Baubo,” he said. “She was a figure in Greek mythology who cheered up Demeter after Hades stole Demeter’s -
Blog postMaking Women Visible After Midlife The anthropologist Margaret Mead married a series of men, each one a researcher about to travel to a place she wanted to study. At the end of an assignment, she divorced and married anew. An extreme method, perhaps, and yet it enabled Mead to examine and write about cultures all over the world. Decades later, when her work was already famous throughout the first world, it amused Mead that her invisibility as an older woman enabled her to visit remote cultur
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Blog postDress Like You Have Diamonds at the Meeting of your Thighs “Does my sexiness offend you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I have diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?”
— Maya Angelou, “And Still I Rise”
We have all read those articles, the ones that tell us what not to wear at our age.
“No self-respecting woman over someage would be seen dead wearing that”.
“Who does she think she is?”
Whenever I see such an article or -
Blog postThe Grandmother Hypothesis In the 1980s, American anthropologist Kristen Hawkes observed Hadza hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, and realized that the older women spent their time collecting food for their grandchildren. This freed up the mothers to have more children.
Hawkes hypothesized that the fittest grandmothers had the most grandchildren, which created selective pressure for longevity well past menopause in humans (as opposed to other apes, whose lifespan ends just after their chi -
Blog postSexual Agency Beyond Midlife In her 2016 book, “Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape,” Peggy Orenstein describes the pressure on American women to perform sexually from an early age, and to please young men while doing so. In many cases, their own pleasure is not the focus of how young women view sex. Orenstein believes that how sexuality is portrayed in popular media and online contributes to this problem.
Studies have long shown that movie and television executiv -
Blog postBlonde at 65 or The Tale of the Peacock What have peacock tail feathers ever done for the peacock?
They are heavy, they harbor ectoparasites, and they add nothing to the bird’s ability to eat, drink, or move. So why have they persisted, generation after generation? A peacock’s tail is a prime example of an elaborate display of reproductive fitness. According to evolutionary scientists, a bird that has so much energy to waste on mere display must have plenty going on as a potential ma
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