Recently I was lucky to get my hands on a copy of Nancy Kilgore’s latest novel, Bitter Magic (in 2011 RCWMS published her novel Sea Level). I’ve long been fascinated […]
Pride
June is busting out all over! And that means one thing: Pride. In June of 2008, I went with my then partner to San Francisco Pride, in the brief window […]
A Mother’s Day Poem
by Rebecca Welper This is for everyone who loves (or hates) Mother’s Day. If you’re close to your mother, or estranged from her, If you were abused by your mother, […]
Spring
It’s hard for me to let go of winter. In December, our three-year-old joined her Yankee parents in embracing the snow storm. She mimicked the main character in her favorite […]
Thank You!
Thank you to everyone who supported the work of RCWMS during our year-end fundraising drive! So many of you gave with such generosity, including supporters who have given for many […]
24th Annual Interfaith Celebration of Community, Spirit, & Change
Thank you to everyone who came out on December 16th for our 24th Annual Interfaith Celebration of Community, Spirit, & Change. While our usual host for the event, Beth El […]
Voting
In the past two years, RCWMS has increasingly included citizen engagement as a vital part of fulfilling our mission to empower women’s voices. This fall for the first time, we’ve […]
Meet the Intern: Melissa Gamble
We’re excited that Duke Divinity student Melissa Gamble is joining us as an intern this summer. She’s helping with various projects around the office, including planning for the Homegrown: NC […]
Coming Out of the Shadows
On an unseasonably hot Saturday at the end of April, sixty people, many of them new faces to RCWMS, gathered with our full queer, spiritual selves, to sing, share, and […]
Women’s Bodies as Battlefield
I was speaking with a friend last week about watching the third presidential debate. She remarked that she wanted to skip it, but would probably watch to remind herself that […]
A Writing Quilt
At RCWMS, we love providing time and space for women to be creative together. One of the ways we’ve done this is by sponsoring weeklong writing retreats at Pelican House […]
Art Weekends at the Beach
During the last week of February, a large beach house on Emerald Isle—with a magnificent view of the sound in one direction and a one-block walk to the beach in […]
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
I’m usually skeptical about film adaptations of my favorite books, but after laughing and crying my way through reading Wild last fall, I was thrilled to learn the film was coming out […]
Imaging My Inner Fire
If any of your New Year’s resolutions include creative and artistic pursuits, you’ll find a welcome companion in Martha Jane Petersen’s Imaging My Inner Fire: Finding My Path Through Creating Art. […]
20th Annual Interfaith Celebration of Community, Spirit and Change
A week before the Solstice, the Resource Center hosted the 20th annual Interfaith Celebration of Community, Spirit and Change at Beth El Synogogue in Durham. We had to keep adding […]