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Her Blueprint is now archived

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As of September 2015, we will no longer be adding posts to Her Blueprint. Since the blog began in 2009, we have included nearly 500 posts fr...

CLIO TALKS BACK: What’s the Matter with Reckoning Descent Through the Mothers?

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The well-educated Englishman known as James de Laurence (whose real name was James Henry Lawrence, 1773-1841) had the bright idea in the ear...

The Right to Love and the Magna Carta

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The White House on June 26, 2015, Washington, DC.  Photo credit: Ted Eytan. The United States Supreme Court slip opinion of Obergef...

CLIO TALKS BACK: May Wright Sewall organizes the International Conference of Women Workers to Promote Permanent Peace, 1915, in San Francisco, California

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The International Conference of Women Workers to Promote Permanent Peace A second women’s peace conference opened in San Francisco durin...

Collective Trauma and Creativity: Pregnant with Possibility

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In Bujumbura, Burundi, a young man protests Burundian President  Nkurunziza's run for a third presidential term. Copyright Reuters/...

CLIO TALKS BACK: The Women’s Peace Congress at The Hague

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Women convene at the Hague in 1915 One hundred years ago this month (April 1915), in the midst of a major war on the European continent...

The Power of Voice, Redux, on International Women's Day

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US congresswoman Jeanette Rankin speaks from the headquarters of the National American Women Suffrage Association, 1917. Three years ...

Chiharu Shiota: Drawing Memories in the Air

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Trace of Memory, The Mattress Factory, 2013 (Photo: Priyanka Sacheti) I remember being thoroughly enchanted the first time I encoun...

CLIO TALKS BACK: Maria Vérone on the “Modernization” of Islam

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Maria Vérone Several days ago, Clio came across an intriguing text about the “modernization” of Islam, written by a French woman lawyer ...

The Year of Living Out Loud

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As 2014 shuffles off its mortal coil, I want to amplify the many voices of 2014 that inspire me to live out loud in 2015. What these voice...

The House with the Mint-Green Walls

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[ Editor's Note: After a few nomadic months, Priyanka has settled in New Delhi. Here she shares her feelings on the way art has inspire...

Belonging Together: The Making of Justice and Art

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“What does poiesis have to do with slavery?” Shadow of Monique Villa, CEO of Thomas Reuters Foundation. Photo: Deborah Espinosa ...