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Two great interviews with Rebecca Walker…
Can I wear lipstick, enjoy men, and still be a feminist? You can do anything you want, honey…a new brand of girl power.
Rebecca Walker–best-selling author, visionary, daughter of Alice Walker (The Color Purple) and goddaughter of Gloria Steinem (talk about pressure!)–shares some surprising perspectives on being a woman today.
She also talks to Kathleen about her behind-the- scenes life as a writer and a mother.
One big happy family…
Ward and June Cleaver have left the building (but were they ever really here?). From mixed marriage to single parenthood, the definition of family is constantly evolving.
Best-selling author Rebecca Walker talks about her recent book, One Big Happy Family, a compilation of essays which offers a peek under the hood at 18 diverse, modern day families. She highlights some of the stories in the book (from stay at home dads to home schooling), and touches on her own unique upbringing. Whatever your family situation was growing up (or now), this contemporary and honest look at family might make you realize that your experiences were more normal than the Cleavers led you to believe.
Plus, Rebecca discusses how she expands her current “family and friends” to thousands through social networking—utilizing Facebook and Twitter to not only share her work, but to create a two way dialogue with others.
Rebecca’s books include To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism; Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self; What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future and most recently Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood after a Lifetime of Ambivalence.
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