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 The Mid-Life Dreams of Marjorie Morningstar
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By Mindy Ohringer
In Feminist Contemplation
Posted May 30, 2019

The Mid-Life Dreams of Marjorie Morningstar

In the late Herman Wouk’s  (who passed recently at age 103) coming of age novel “Marjorie Morningstar”, a young actress endures heartbreak while struggling to build a theatrical [...]

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 Our Kavanaugh Trauma, Voting, and The Taming of the Radical Imagination
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By Mindy Ohringer
In Feminist Contemplation
Posted October 4, 2018

Our Kavanaugh Trauma, Voting, and The Taming of the Radical Imagination

After three weeks in the woods as a “Writer in Residence” at Byrdcliffe Arts Colony (working on my novel “The Wife in Winter: Oaths of Fealty”, spending time with exceptionally talented artists [...]

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 THE RED BARN: UNANTICIPATED SANCTUARY
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By Mindy Ohringer
In Feminist Contemplation
Posted May 27, 2018

THE RED BARN: UNANTICIPATED SANCTUARY

Thirty-two years ago, a summer share advertisement in The Village Voice changed my life. According to the Voice classifieds, half-shares were still available in a large beach house on Fire [...]

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 MAY DAZE
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By Mindy Ohringer
In Feminist Contemplation
Posted May 13, 2018

MAY DAZE

In defiance of statistical norms, I’m back in C.V.S. shopping for tampons and overnight pads. A song of my youth is piped through the florescent illuminated suburban gloom. It’s [...]

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 BREAKING LITTLE GIRLS
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By Mindy Ohringer
In Feminist Contemplation
Posted April 9, 2018

BREAKING LITTLE GIRLS

Today, I’m in physical therapy because I ache like a woman. The physical therapy team has given me more challenging exercises as I’m fighting my way back towards the tennis courts [...]

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 HALLMARK CAN NEVER SAY IT ALL! HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY
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By Mindy Ohringer
In Feminist Contemplation
Posted February 12, 2018

HALLMARK CAN NEVER SAY IT ALL! HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY

There’s a beautiful Dar Williams song, “February”, which captures heartbreak in winter. “…The everyday turned solitary, so we came to February…And February was [...]

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 REINVENTING THE WHEEL OF FEMINIST DISCOURSE, “GIRL POWER”, AND THE LEGACY OF CHATTEL
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By Mindy Ohringer
In Feminist Contemplation
Posted January 28, 2018

REINVENTING THE WHEEL OF FEMINIST DISCOURSE, “GIRL POWER”, AND THE LEGACY OF CHATTEL

Without Hillary Clinton in the White House, moderates and neoliberals are wide awake and deeply uncomfortable with the status quo for the first time. Terrified and disgusted folks are advised [...]

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 WRITING POLITICALLY CHARGED FICTION: SOURCES OF INSPIRATION
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By Mindy Ohringer
In Feminist Contemplation
Posted November 28, 2017

WRITING POLITICALLY CHARGED FICTION: SOURCES OF INSPIRATION

There’s that awful moment when you discover the brilliant scholar, whose review of “Local Deities” in “The Nation” (“Staying on Alone”, 2/12/90) changed [...]

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