Jennifer Browdy, Ph.D., teaches comparative literature, gender studies and media studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. She is the Founding Director of the Berkshire Festival of Women Writers, the co-publisher of Green Fire Press, and blogs at Transition Times. Her new book, What I Forgot…And Why I Remembered: A Purposeful Memoir of Personal and Planetary Transformation, will be published in 2015.
Thursday, 3 Dec 2015 - I want to be able to write a letter to future generations that tells proudly how in my time, we stood up in the face of impending disaster and made the necessary changes in lifestyle, industry and economy.
Thursday, 26 Nov 2015 - Let us remember the real roots of this holiday: The generous spirit of the indigenous ancestors of America, who welcomed the first European refugees.
Thursday, 19 Nov 2015 - If we really want to defang the terrorists, we should stop selling them weapons, for starters.
Thursday, 12 Nov 2015 - Goliath is now us, ordinary citizens linked together through the Internet, working together to make our dreams and visions real.
Thursday, 5 Nov 2015 - It was no accident that the realization of equality for gay Americans was preceded by a good decade of arts activism.
Thursday, 29 Oct 2015 - The silver lining of this autumn of our discontent is that the streets and proverbial water coolers of Great Barrington are suddenly buzzing with neighbors newly engaged with the civic life of our town.
Thursday, 22 Oct 2015 - We are the stewards of our community, and every decision we make matters. Letting our high school slide into disrepair…letting the character of our Main Street be lost.
Thursday, 15 Oct 2015 - When I look at myself objectively, I have to laugh at my stubborn belief that those in power have the best interests of the general public in mind. You’d think that by now I would have learned to be suspicious and watchful of everyone who makes decisions on behalf of the rest of us. On […]
Thursday, 8 Oct 2015 - It’s time to do whatever it takes to stop these horrendous massacres by tightening up the sale and possession of firearms, making sure that only those who are well trained and mentally sound can legally possess them.
Thursday, 1 Oct 2015 - Let’s face it: fossil fuel emissions are just a symptom of the real problem of runaway human population growth.
Thursday, 24 Sep 2015 - Pope Francis, in his impressive Encyclical on the environment, shows himself to be fully aware of the interlocking cause and effect of politics, industry and environmental destruction.
Thursday, 17 Sep 2015 - "It should not take a burning Torah or a flaming cross to make us form a bucket brigade." -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Thursday, 10 Sep 2015 - I wonder, would we in the Berkshires respond to a sudden influx of several thousand newcomers from a faraway war-torn land?
Thursday, 3 Sep 2015 - I want to live in a world where this kind of treatment of women would be unthinkable to any man.
Thursday, 27 Aug 2015 - Bernie Sanders may be an unlikely hero, but he’s got the guts to be out there speaking truth to power in ways that no one else in the Democratic Party seems willing to do.
Thursday, 20 Aug 2015 - St John, just across the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick, has been expanding its deepwater port, serving as a tanker depot for oil and gas. This is where the disputed gas pipeline that would run through Berkshire County would end up.