Latest Stories
Most recently published stories in Viva.
Feminist Femininity
After spending two weeks visiting family in small town BC, fishing, 4x4ing, and chopping wood, I’m finally back in the city and confronting a difficult dilemma. How do I indulge and explore my femininity, without abandoning who I am? Can I practice being elegant and sultry and seductive without falling into the trap of believing “the feminine is just about receiving”? Can I have Carrie Bradshaw energy, without freaking out every time I leave the city?
By Christina King5 years ago in Viva
Review of A Portrait of a Lady on Fire
This is a rather beautiful love story between two women, set in the 18th Century. While I truly loved the main plot of the growing love between an artist and her subject, it was not the part of the movie that I found the most poignant.
By Guenneth Speldrong5 years ago in Viva
The Endurance of Women
I have been doing a lot of thinking lately and I have come to the conclusion that women are the most amazing "beings" on the planet...look at what we endure as women! Men are pretty great too, I mean lets be fair we would not be able to build the world family wise without them because without sperm there are no babies...fact! But I feel like they got it easy compared to us...just look at what we as women go through in our lifetime.
By C. M. Sears5 years ago in Viva
Don't ask for my name
Call me mental, but I loath when people ask for my name right off the bat. I get this sour knot at the pit of my stomach and I recoil at the person inwardly. I instantly don’t trust them, and I perceive them as controlling and manipulative. It is a violently negative reaction that I don’t share with anyone. Afterall it is the social norm to start pleasantries with names. To me, though, there is nothing pleasant about such an exchange.
By E. J. Strange5 years ago in Viva
the fight
I am standing in this rain, again, waiting for a break in the clouds; it seems it has rained forever, that this torrential moment will never end. I imagine a dance between nearly-forgotten memories of sunlight, wishing for these withered seeds in my heart to become flowers. They have been buried so long, though, and I don’t know if they will ever have the chance to bloom. I feel forgotten, and I feel lost.
By Joanna McLoughlin5 years ago in Viva
The Post Office and Women. Top Story - July 2021.
The Post Office: An Early Employer of Women Sarah Goddard and Mary Katherine Goddard were known female Postmasters in the 1700s. The post office archives goes on to mention Ann Clay, postmaster in New Castle, Delaware. Elizabeth Creswell postmaster in Charlestown, Maryland and in 1792 postmaster Sarah DeCrow in Hertford, North Carolina.
By Paula C. Henderson5 years ago in Viva
Her Strength is Built in Baths.
“When surrounded by the cares of the world, she bathes; she washes the worries and works away.” —Natalie Stover The art of bathing has been around for a very long time. We could follow it back to nomadic tribes who would submerge themselves in natural hot springs to bring healing and peace to their bodies. Somehow, the springs beckoned them to soak in their natural elements, and even call truce in a survival of the fittest culture where only the strong survived. Sometimes, only these places offered peace, unity and healing amongst enemies and war. The art of bathing has always been a place where even the most barbaric can harness peace and let the worries of this world vanish for a moment, so I choose to glean from history and partake in this art as much as I can this year.
By Natalie Stover5 years ago in Viva
Foucault and Feminism
As much of his work centered on issues of power, an issue that is central to the study of gender, the theories of philosopher Michel Foucault have been hotly debated within feminist literature. However, the relationship between Foucault and feminism has at times been a troubled one, and during the late twentieth century, it was a topic that was much-debated among feminists and scholars.
By Jupiter Grant5 years ago in Viva
Socanomics Encompasses...
It is a transformative spiritual experience when you truly connect your soul to your body. Those who have the freedom of mobility maneuver through life unappreciative of the gift of movement. Dance is the release of all the tension the body holds. It is the telling of all the stories of ones’ ancestors and ones’ descendants. It is futuristic folklore. Love. Safety. Understanding. Warmth and Comfort. It is cooling and centering, while somehow erupting the parts of yourself that had been dormant during your moments of stillness.
By Jada Ferguson5 years ago in Viva
