I have written about this before And, no doubt, I will write about it again. This morning we woke to the news of Another mass shooting, a mass shooting is defined as four or more people shot in a single… Read More ›
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Women’s March, October 2022, Long Beach, CA by Marie Cartier
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Heat Wave by Marie Cartier
The heat wave was real. Suzie squinted into the afternoon light glinting off her pink ’69 VW. How was that still running, she thought, rebuilt and rebuilt? Work? That’s how. And that’s how she’d keep running. Work. You just had… Read More ›
“Guns: The Sanctity of Life” by Marie Cartier
What can I say about guns? I want to be like Gabby Giffords and survive I want to be Emma Gonzalez and fight back I want to be I want to talk about how GUNS are less regulated than my… Read More ›
A Chorus of Need: I Need an Abortion by Marie Cartier
I need an abortion and I can’t get one Because I don’t have the money to fly somewhere else other than …here Where I can’t get one I need an abortion and I can’t get one Because the kid, or… Read More ›
From the Archives: I Believe Anita! by Marie Cartier
This was originally posted on April 7, 2014 During the past week I attended a Los Angeles premiere of a new documentary Anita: Speaking Truth to Power (Dir: Freida Lee Mock USA, 2013). The screening was sold out and I… Read More ›
A Poem for Our Abortion Rights by Marie Cartier
Fecundity: the ability to produce an abundance of new growth, but also the ability to produce new ideas And now in the hour of our discontent, we are asked to worry about fecundity. I suppose we can call it that—have… Read More ›
photo essay, part 2: bans off our bodies rally by Marie Cartier
photos from bans off our bodies rally, long beach ca may 14, 2022 all photos by: marie cartier BIO: Marie Cartier is a teacher, poet, writer, healer, artist, and scholar. She holds a BA in Communications from the University of New… Read More ›
photo essay, part 1: bans off our bodies rally by Marie Cartier
photos from bans off our bodies rally, long beach ca may 14, 2022 all photos by: marie cartier BIO: Marie Cartier is a teacher, poet, writer, healer, artist, and scholar. She holds a BA in Communications from the University of New… Read More ›
Mission, Not Glory: A Dialogue by Marie Cartier
Well, he didn’t do it for the glory, that’s for sure. Maybe he did? He’s gone. When you immolate –you’re gone. What glory is there in that? Well, the reason he did it—as I understand it—is because the world is… Read More ›
My Favorite President: Hillary by Marie Cartier
Can I finally write about that night? Not sure. Here goes. Hillary Clinton. My heart beat. I voted for her every chance I got. Loved her passionately—the way I’ve heard folks talk about working for a candidate with their whole… Read More ›
From the Archives: The Feminist Toolbox by Marie Cartier
This blog was originally posted on April 4, 2012. There were a significant number of comments which you can read here. This spring I am teaching “Feminist Ethics” at California State University Northridge. For the students’ midterm and final we are… Read More ›
My Funny, Queer Valentine by Marie Cartier
I wrote a short story in the spirit of both my book Baby, You Are My Religion and Valentine’s Day for this month’s blog. Happy Valentines’ month. <3 Marie She remembered that is what it had said, “To my funny, queer valentine.”… Read More ›
This is What Democracy Looks Like by Marie Cartier
Tell me what democracy looks like! This is what democracy looks like! PHOTO ESSAY: January 6th protest in support of voting rights Governor George Deukmejian Courthouse, Long Beach, CA January 6, 2022
From the Archives: There Is No Santa-The Antlered Flying Goddess With Gifts by Marie Cartier
Moderator’s note: This marvelous FAR site has been running for 10 years and has had more than 3,600 posts in that time. There are so many treasures that have been posted in this decade that they tend to get lost… Read More ›
From the Archives: And the Pies! Ongoing Grateful Thanks for Tradition by Marie Cartier
Moderator’s note: This marvelous FAR site has been running for 10 years and has had more than 3,500 posts in that time. There are so many treasures that have been posted in this decade that they tend to get lost… Read More ›
Women’s March in Long Beach, CA by Marie Cartier
Hello FAR family! Here are photos from the October 2nd Women’s March in Long Beach, CA. The Women’s March began after the 2016 “election” and continued through the Trump years, and was not immediately active after Biden won. But after Texas… Read More ›
Class: What I Did with My One Wild Life by Marie Cartier
Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life? -Mary Oliver, “The Summer Day” What did I do, the famous poet asks? Well, I survived, first of all, because that’s first. Then, I… Read More ›
Suffrage is Unfinished Business—On The 101 Anniversary of the 19th Amendment by Marie Cartier
Dear FAR readers – please find photos from a celebration of the 101 anniversary of women’s suffrage, the 19th Amendment, that I attended August 26, 2021. That day marks the end of the 100th year of women having the right… Read More ›
Loving Venus, a poem by Marie Cartier
Dedicated to Carol Christ, 1945-2021, who taught so many of us how to love the Goddess She is called “Nude Woman” and currently livesin her natural museum house in Vienna.Nude woman. She is art, but she is not in an… Read More ›
Blue Is My Favorite Color by Marie Cartier
You can’t have the ocean without blue. I walk at night, that’s the time of year the grunion run, a silver school teaching us that it’s work to populate –the small shimmer of a female screwing herself into the sand…. Read More ›
How I Learned to Make Maps by Marie Cartier
1. I went into the unknown world with glasses that made everything so clear I could move through this world into the next. Before I got my glasses…I didn’t see the way I could step to the edge, put out… Read More ›
How I Learned to Grow Wings by Marie Cartier
April 2021, Poem Visibility is this body opening against itself over and over… an existence moving through fibers was the one thing I had. When was the time…breathe in? Breathe out. My existence to myself was the most political act…. Read More ›
I Heard my Own Siren Song, and Followed It (a poem) by Marie Cartier
They didn’t know I was a mermaid. That I had a siren song. That I could lure, and I could kill. And that I would eventually because – I was a mermaid. When my father tried… Read More ›
How I Learned to Love Snakes (a poem) by Marie Cartier
Can I recall a time when my resilience surprised me? My mother always said, “If you feel bad, go out into the garden and eat worms.” Sigh. We didn’t have a garden. My resilience. My head hits the counter, as… Read More ›
This Story, I Am This Story by Marie Cartier
1. The papaya, the lemon, the squash. The everything going bad—not yet. I can pickle anything I can save—still. And I am never still. Still…at sixty-four here I am. Rise. This is age—still. 2. I have a passport to somewhere… Read More ›
In These United States: Georgia is on My Mind by Marie Cartier
Georgia on my mind, so goes the song, and right now the road leads back to you, Georgia. The run-off election which could make two senators blue and give control of the Senate to the Democrats, remove a Republican as… Read More ›
Photo Essay: November 7, 2020, Long Beach, CA by Marie Cartier
My wife and I woke up to the fact that Joe Biden surpassed 270 electoral votes needed and that it appeared that he was in all likelihood going to be our next president and Kamala Harris our new VP, and… Read More ›
Poem: In These United States- The Court Supreme By Marie Cartier
We have nine justices usually but one of our most beloved, and notorious, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, RBG, has gone to the Summerland, across the Rainbow Bridge, to the afterlife—wherever that is for her, she’s gone there. May her memory be… Read More ›
From Military Wife to Peacebuilder – Learning from the Greenham Common Peace Women by Karen Leslie Hernandez
There’s a pinnacle moment, I believe, when everyone’s path is laid before them. The funny thing about that, is that we usually don’t see that moment, until many years later. It is then, at that sudden moment of clarity, in… Read More ›
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