We discuss art women's art in all eras and cultures and languages: art of every kind, books, music, pictures, films. The context is the politics of women's lives. We're an ongoing, informal, and progressive feminist cyberspace forum.

Current Picture: Susan La Mont, Early Morning Dunes

Current reading: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, then Bring Up the Bodies (plus then perhaps Ford Madox Ford's The Fifth Queen) Stephanie Bird: Recasting Historical Women: Female Identity in German Biographical Fiction.

Upcoming: Julia Fox, Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford (Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl); Ford Madox Ford, the Fifth Queen. Elsa Morante, Menzogna e sortilegio

We host a Jane Austen subgroup: any and all things Austen all the time. Just now: Catherine Hubback's The Younger Sister. Upcoming possibilities: Lindsay Ashford's Mysterious Death of Miss JA; Cathleen Schine's Three Weissmans of Westport.

We also discuss women's art work and women's films, trying to emphasize those with women as screenplay writers, directors, producers, and sometimes providing source text

Possibilities for future: Molly Keane, Time after Time. Mary Wesley, Jumping the Queue. Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry