As we continue our series featuring the women of FIERCE: Essays by and About Dauntless Women, we talk today with Chicava Honeychild, who is an actress, a burlesque dancer, a scholar, and a teacher of what she calls "Sacred Burlesque." She tells us what she has in common with a nun from the 1700s who had healing powers, and how she's using burlesque to combat society's narrow and unrealistic views on female beauty.

You can find Chicava's work with Sacred Chrysalis here.

You can purchase a copy of the award-winning anthology, FIERCE: Essays by and About Dauntless Women here.

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Kara Lee Corthron is a playwright, a novelist, and a TV writer. Her forthcoming Young Adult novel DAUGHTERS OF JUBILATION is about a teenager in the Jim Crow era who discovers that she has magical abilities that make her powerful in a time when the world is telling her she is powerless. In this third installment of our episodes with the women who wrote FIERCE: ESSAYS BY AND ABOUT DAUNTLESS WOMEN, Kara tells us about her own journey as a writer, and why she chose to write about a woman who understood that sometimes to be fierce, you need to make some noise.

You can read more about Kara and her work here, and preorder DAUGHTERS OF JUBILATION here.

You can purchase a copy of the award-winning anthology, FIERCE: Essays by and About Dauntless Women here.

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Edissa Nicolás-Huntsman calls herself an agitator, and activist, and an educator. In this riveting installment of our essays featuring the women of FIERCE: ESSAYS BY AND ABOUT AUDACIOUS WOMEN, Edissa tells us about the inspiration she found from a 19th-century Jewish feminist suffragist, and what she's doing to fight systemic oppression right now.

You can find Edissa's blog Karma Compass here, including the Living Artist Project, her work on Unlearning Oppression, and what she's doing to make sure everyone can vote this November here. Please consider donating to Karma Compass and supporting Edissa's wonderful work!

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In the first of five episodes featuring FIERCE: ESSAYS BY AND ABOUT DAUNTLESS WOMEN, award-winning author Meera Nair shares how she's found hope even as she's been living in "the epicenter of the epicenter," the place that for a time, got hit hardest by COVID-19.

Read more about Meera and find links to her published work here.

You can purchase a copy of the award-winning anthology, FIERCE: Essays by and About Dauntless Women here.

Trigger warning: In Meera's discussion of the essay she wrote for FIERCE, she mentions self-harm.

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In this open letter to her mom, Laura reflects on what she learned about being a strong woman even in a house that was wary of feminism.

Her letter kicks off a week of episodes with the women who wrote the award-winning book, FIERCE: ESSAYS BY AND ABOUT DAUNTLESS WOMEN.

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On this Independence Day, Air Force veteran Tino Dinh talks about patriotism, and why he thinks it should be an inclusive term.

Tino is the child of refugees who nearly died when they fled Saigon during the Vietnam war. He's spent most of his life serving this country--both in the Air Force and as a management consultant who advocates for veterans' benefits and solves problems in what he calls "the plumbing and the guts of the government."

You can find Tino here and here.

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As we approach this holiday weekend, Laura looks to Independent presidential candidate Mark Charles to help us celebrate without ignoring our country's complicated family history.

Resources from today’s episode:

Read UNSETTLING TRUTHS by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah

Read Mark Charles’s story, “The Dilemma of the Fourth of July,” which I quoted in this episode.

Watch this documentary about the Doctrine of Discovery.

Watch the Upstander Project's film, Dawnland.

Map our your own Genogram.

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We all have those times when life is a perfect storm of disasters and we just can't take it anymore. Sometimes it's our kids who have temper tantrums. Sometimes, it's us. Today I share the biggest one we've had yet during this quarantine, and what it's teaching us.

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Fifteen years ago, the first thing Laura ever published was a short piece of creative non-fiction called "Touched." Today, she responds to that younger version of herself with "Untouched," a reflection on life in a world where she no longer takes touch for granted.

You can find the original version of "Touched" at www.shelterinplacepodcast.info, and at The Cricket Online Review, which published it in 2005.

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For the past two weeks, we've been looking at this time through the lens of the Enneagram--but the idea for this series began as a joke. Today Laura shares her own rocky road with the Enneagram, and why she's finally come around to believing that we need it now more than ever before.

Special thanks to Anne & Tyler Elliston, Anne Leaché, and Emily & Donovan Chandler for becoming supporters of Shelter in Place.

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