Minnesota Women's Press

Victoria (V.E.) Schwab is a #1 New York Times best-selling fantasy author of more than 20 books. In this interview with a Minnesota high school student, she shares her thoughts on how to handle the trials of creativity in a time when creative pursuits, especially by women, are diminished.

"The women who took us in would talk into the night, with cigarettes and wine, providing the care and reprieve my mother needed. That kitchen table — and my mother and the women’s laughter — was safety," shares domestic violence survivor Mary Jo Klinker in March's magazine.

To influence the attention on elder care in Minnesota, Kristine Sundberg, executive director of Elder Voice Advocates, says is to “expand the analytics” to better influence public policy. Ageism, she says, makes the tool essential.

At a fiber arts camp at the Textile Center last summer, young artists Ruby Dohman found their people. "Fiber arts people are my people. And so are LGBTQ+ people. So the camp was really my people. Even though our backgrounds and skills are different, our brains are similar. We all understood each other."

In a recent commentary for Minnesota Women's Press, Pamela Zeller, executive director of Women’s Initiative for Self-Empowerment (WISE), draws parallels between current White House tactics and abusive behaviors, highlighting how these strategies destabilize and drain victims.

"You can try to fix anything you want. But if the outside environment is not supporting it -— if it’s actually working against it — then all those little fixes are not going to make it go away." More from Marian Barcus, a social worker in Grand Rapids, on re-evaluating capitalism:

Mikki Morrissette reflects on the five-year anniversary of the pandemic, sharing insights from a recent interview on KAXE Radio.

"Remember that the world is much bigger than this moment, bigger than us and our experience of it, and much bigger than we imagine when we are afraid." — Mariame Kaba, "Let This Radicalize You". More quotes inside March's magazine: https://buff.ly/HP8ZiNi

The Minnesota Justice Research Center is a nonprofit organization that focuses on how to create a stronger and more impactful criminal legal system in Minnesota. Read our interview with MNJRC staff in March's issue:

Artists Marlena Myles, Taná?ida? Tó Wí?, and Heather Friedli are bringing Dakóta culture to life at Battle Creek Park. Their Four Winds seasonal events honor ancestral teachings, which started with the Waziya Winter-Wind Celebration. More to come: