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Finally, all twelve months of the Women's Daily Devotional are together in one volume!Being a woman of God is a calling, and now more than ever, our quiet time with God is a necessity we cannot neglect. The Women's Daily Devotional series explores a new fruit of the spirit every month and provides Bible verses, personal stories from the author, reflection, questions, and prayer suggestions for every single day of the year.In this anthology, you'll...
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A pathbreaking look at Native women of the early South who defined power and defied authority.
Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky tells a story of war, slavery, loss, remembrance, and the women whose resilience and resistance transformed the colonial South. In exploring their lives she rewrites early American history, challenging the established male-centered narrative.
Dubcovsky reconstructs the lives of Native women-Timucua, Apalachee, Chacato, and...
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Little Women Atlanta volume 7
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Host Loni Love passes the talking stick to twins, Amanda and Andrea, as they tell us their side of what went down at the shaman session.
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"The five speculative stories in Theodore McCombs's kaleidoscopic collection span several possible worlds, teasing the boundaries between coexisting realities and taking up the question of queer difference from one surprising vantage after another. In "Toward a Theory of Alternative Lifestyles," a heartbroken gay man waits in line at an exclusive Berlin rave promising visions of parallel lives across the multiverse. In "Six Hangings in the Land of...
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New Day Films
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1993.
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A fascinating look into the conversations of nine women who gather together for a weekend to talk about sex. The women range in age from 21 to 71 and come from diverse racial backgrounds and sexual orientations.. In this intimate video produced, directed and recorded by women, we see the openness and warmth which evolves as the women share their questions, experiences and concerns. The women talk frankly about sexual orientation, menstruation, masturbation,...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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In the Aboriginal community of Mt Liebig, about 300km west of Alice Springs, a group of young women talk about the importance of bush food in their culture and its relationship to good health. In contrast, they associate sickness with “takeaway shop food” and describe Alice Springs as a “takeaway town: takeaway food, takeaway grog and takeaway sickness”. The women visit the nearby Irantji waterhole with a group of children to teach them how...
8) Winter Ade
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Kanopy Streaming
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2015.
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Deutsch
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Shortly before GDR’s collapse, Helke Misselwitz traveled by train from one end of the country to the other interviewing East German women of different ages and backgrounds. In this documentary masterpiece, women reveal their personal and professional frustrations, hopes and aspirations—and, in doing so, paint a portrait of a changing society. The landscape and architecture of East Germany, filmed in B&W on 35mm by Thomas Plenert, form the background...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Renee Engeln's Beauty Sick
The pandemic of beauty sickness is ravaging the female world and paralyzing women's potential. How often do women talk about their physical flaws? How often do they complain about their weight or wrinkles? How many young girls feel too ugly to be seen every day? In Beauty Sick (2017), Renee Engeln explores this devastating pandemic and how it affects women's lives, psychology, and...
10) Bitching
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In the early 1970s, the national conversation regarding feminism was very different. Public discussions of womanhood-single life, marriage, workplace harassment, rights, gripes-were often channeled through movement spokeswomen and always refracted through the lens of talking to men about men. Little was shared about the chats happening behind closed doors where everyday women talked to women without the threat of men listening in. But, all that changed...
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Deep cover agent, RYDELL gambles with people's lives to prove loyalty, earning his way into the trust circles on a pills and powder trafficking sting. He's married to a sinking ship of addictions named MARCY, a recently retired adult filmmaker. They have a daughter named SHANDELLE, who is excelling in ice skating. The bonding Rydell forms with his Underworld crew puts not only his case in danger, but his marriage. Nothing means more to him than his...
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A satirical debut novel for fans of Women Talking and Red Clocks about two best friends-a disgraced influencer and a struggling actor-who form The Atmosphere, a cult designed to reform problematic men.
Sasha Marcus was once the epitome of contemporary success: an internet sensation, social media darling, and a creator of a high profile wellness brand for women. But a confrontation with an abusive troll has taken a horrifying turn, and now she's at...
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Gina Barreca is fed up with women who lean in, but don't open their mouths. In her latest collection of essays, she turns her attention to subjects like bondage which she notes now seems to come in fifty shades of grey and has been renamed Spanx. She muses on those lessons learned in Kindergarten that every woman must unlearn like not having to hold the hand of the person you're waking next to (especially if he's a bad boyfriend) or needing to have...
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A hilarious saga of fishing, family, and three generations of tough, independent women-the first in a trilogy
Having fled the testosterone-soaked world of professional sport fishing, thirty-something RayAnne Dahl is navigating a new job as a consultant for the first all-women talk show about fishing on public television (or, as one viewer's husband puts it, "Oprah in a boat"). After the host bails, RayAnne lands in front of the camera and out of...
15) Exhibit
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Riverhead Books
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2024.
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"At a lavish party in the hills outside of San Francisco, Jin Han meets Lidija Jung and nothing will ever be the same for either woman. A brilliant, young photographer, Jin is at a crossroads in her work, in her marriage to college sweetheart Phillip, in who she is and who she wants to be. Lidija is a glamorous, injured world-class ballerina on hiatus from her ballet company under mysterious circumstances. Drawn to each other by their intense artistic...
16) Passages
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Mubi, Inc
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2023.
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Français
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Celebrated filmmaker Ira Sachs (Love is Strange) makes a breathtaking return with Passages, in which a gay couple's marriage is thrown into crisis when one of them impulsively begins a passionate affair with a young woman, starring Franz Rogowski (Great Freedom), Ben Whishaw (Women Talking) and Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue Is the Warmest Colour).
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Ginny Splinter, acclaimed radio host and advice expert, prides herself on knowing what's best for others. So she's sure her husband, Adrian, will love the special trip to Italy she's planned for their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. But when Ginny presents the gift to Adrian, he surprises her with his own very different plan--a divorce. Beside herself with heartache, Ginny impulsively invites four heartbroken listeners to join her in Italy instead...
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"A memoir of survival, self-discovery, and forgiveness. For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues that impact women's lives. Women We Buried, Women We Burned is her own story. Snyder was eight years old when her mother died, and her distraught father thrust the family into an evangelical, cult-like existence halfway across the country. Furiously rebellious, she was expelled from school and...
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2023.
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"A richly reported and provocative look at the history of women's sports and the controversy surrounding trans athletes by a leading LGBTQ+ sports journalist. For decades women have been playing competitive sports thanks in large part to the protective cover of Title IX. Since passage of that law, the number of women participating in sports and the level of competition in high school, college, and professionally, has risen dramatically. In Fair Play,...
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"Twenty years after the success of her first memoir, the New York Times bestseller The Truth Is . . ., the Grammy and Oscar award-winning rocker and trailblazing LGBTQIA icon takes stock of the intervening years, recounting the euphoric triumphs and the life-altering tragedies of her life"--
Etheridge has lived a life of many blessings-- but has also struggled mightily along the way. Changes in the music industry threated her livelihood; she was...
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