Blog: Women's Voices
Chapter 32 from Little Texas
This is an excerpt from my novel, Little Texas. Three young women, born and raised together in Clovis, New Mexico, USA, find their lives upended following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Clovie, Susan, and Akiko are in their senior year of high school when Akiko disappears overnight with the entire Japanese colony.
Remove Should from your vocabulary.
I learned that words matter, whether spoken to myself or aloud to others. I learned to avoid the word SHOULD and rethink my ideas.
Badass Women
Women have the power to change the culture for better. Resurgence of right-wing obstruction and violence is retaliation to women's growing power.
Back in the Saddle
Establish routines so that you as a writer, and your loved ones as your supporters, respect the boundaries.
Scarves and Bibles
Many women enable the systematic radicalization of today's white conservative men. Who are these women?
On Freedom & Peace by Nancy Jean
The first step to a productive life in freedom and peace begins with me. Free from the constraints of religious cultism.
On Accepting Visibility by Nancy Jean
Women must be the protectors and teachers and leaders of all that is good, fair, kind, and true.
The Time of Loss
Treasures are the truths that we uncover and brilliantize with our voices.
Stories Are The Community of Memories by Nancy Jean
I write so that I can move forward. I write with an invitation to readers to move forward. Although our memories are often grey, the community of memories inside our stories reveal truths that help us move forward.
Viewing MLK Jr Through Lens of Little Texas by Nancy Jean
What I remember; what I've learned. In the Little Texas culture I lived in the 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr was not seen as a legitimate Christian preacher, much less a hero. But black women across the USA are now the citizens who will save our democracy.
Say Her Name by Nancy Jean
Has any of her art survived these hundred years? Does anyone of her lineage know about her accomplishments? Say her name: Susie H Williams Bosley.