Alison Bechdel

“Power is a pedestal upon which we stand. However, pedestals are easily toppled, or stolen.” (Jonah Salazar) John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie travel to a ranch in Salinas during the great depression. They meet other people on the ranch with various degrees of power. Power constantly shifts from one character to another. Lennie kills the bosses daughter in law. In result, George is forced to kill Lennie. The message John Steinbeck is trying to convey is that power constantly…

I grew up surrounded by women, but with women who were enclosed in the mentalities of a male-dominated society. We spun on the axis of sexism. We walked the grounds of bias opinions. We got caught up in the silent winds of voices unheard and cloudless skies of faces unseen. Now fast-forward twenty years, my niece is growing up surrounded by women. Times have changed. The women surrounding her have broken out of this enclosure. We have created our own rotational spin of balance. We walk the…