Eva K. Rosenfeld
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Judy Chicago's Intervention
“There's a huge amount of unknown work by women that is worthy of study, conservation, archiving, preserving and would be a contribution to the future, instead of writing another goddamn Ph.D. on Jeff Koons.”
‘Listen, listen, listen’ to Leslie S. Jamison ’04
I don't know if the desire to make great art is wholly about wanting to be loved, but I think it shares something, in the sense of wanting to be heard.
The Fire That Changed The Way We Think About Grief
Hundreds lost loved ones to Boston's 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire, the deadliest nightclub conflagration in U.S. history. The blaze and its aftermath — and a Harvard professor's study of the bereaved — would reshape the way America and the world understood grief.
Harvard Wives' Tales
Lecture topics for the Society of Harvard Dames evolved over the twentieth century. In 1925, Miss Alice Bradley spoke on “Intelligent Housekeeping.” In 1951, the wives were “fascinated and delighted to hear” Harvard architecture professor Jean P. Carlhian weigh in on the subject, “Can Mrs. Blandings Build her Dream House?”
How Do I Tell You This In A Way You'll Understand?
Narratives of sexual violence fill the public air these days like gnats in summer, but I do still find them fairly invisible in life here.
Mutual Interview with FM Staff Writer Alicia M. Chen
FM staff writers EKR and AMC interview one another on what it means to perform femininity at Harvard—by digging holes or oversharing on social media.
The Women In Your Seminar Are Speaking a Secret Dialect and Thank God For That
Here is my thesis: Gerty MacDowell and her friends do not hold hands. They do not hug. They do much more. Flashing signals like lighthouses.
The Neighbors
All kinds of Allstonians are affected by the congestion—and proposed development—around I-90, and a multi-generational group of neighbors has stepped up.
Comb My Hair And Pour The Wine
It’s a type of feminine infrastructure, a commons without tragedy.
"We Call Each Other Home:" Ivy Native Council at Harvard
Native Americans at Harvard College, the group that organized the Summit, has found that food impacts the lives of indigenous people in broader, weightier ways than most people are aware of.