I’ve always enjoyed the sci-fi written by Joanna Russ, and I finished this book she wrote about women’s writing: How To Suppress Women’s Writing last month. I’ve been mulling over it for a while, it’s a trip. A very cool writer mama I know from Mamaphonic sent it to me. I couldn’t find it anywhere local and was bitchin’ about buying it online because the shipping cost more than the book, and she found it and just got two copies, one for me. How nice is that?

So this book just blew my mind. In it she discusses the many ways in which women have been and are discouraged from writing. If I wasn’t already a raging angry womanist I would be after reading this book, lol. In a way it’s depressing to read about how women writers have been marginalized but it also serves as more fuel for my creativity when I feel overwhelmed with being a writer as well as a wife and mother. What does being a wife and mother have to do with being a female writer? Everything. My writing is affected in ways that it would not be were not female, were I not a mother, were I not a wife. I am happy to say that this effect is mostly positive, especially the mother part.

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