Medusa and Me: Twenty-Five Years of Female Rage

Medusa and Me: Twenty-Five Years of Female Rage

By Mary Valentis and Phill Arensberg

For 25 or more years Mary Valentis and her son Phill Arensberg have been carrying on a cross-country conversation, sometimes fiery, about culture, gender, race, rage, and the way we live now and lived then. During the 90’s, the era of Bill Clinton and Women Who Run with the Wolves, feminist ideals and identity were thrust into the public square and long held tenets were challenged and rewritten largely as a mural across pop culture and etched into new ideas of women’s strength. This discussion, empowering, acrimonious, and liberating was focused on how women viewed themselves and how the expressed their identity within that introspective context. Now, that private examination has exploded into the culture – politics, entertainment, sports, and linguistics – from who am I to #MeToo to #TimesUp. 25 years after Mary Valentis wrote Female Rage, the examination of what it means for women and now, womxn, produces tangible and overdue change.

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