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Elayne Clift

Elayne Clift

The Mysterious Draw of Crime Drama During the Winter of Our Discontent

Winter 2022. Another season of isolation. Trips cancelled. Theater, museums, movies, restaurants now no-go zones. Closeted clothes…

Feb 23, 2022

Feb 23, 2022

Elayne Clift

Building Better Calls for Bold Change

“How Far Should Biden Go?” a recent piece in The Atlantic asked. The answer, in my opinion, is as far as he and his administration can…

Feb 3, 2021

Feb 3, 2021

Elayne Clift

A Vermont Community Helps Asylum Seekers One Family at a Time

“They are not European immigrants celebrated at Ellis Island, but they are our continent’s immigrants, here, now. I don’t have a lamp, and…

Oct 30, 2020

Oct 30, 2020

Elayne Clift

Enablers, Collaborators, and a Mussolini Moment

It started with a ride down an escalator. And it’s been escalating ever since. From the first cries of rapists invading our country to dog…

Oct 12, 2020

Oct 12, 2020

Elayne Clift

Surviving the Fire Within

Some of us have heartburn. Others feel nauseous or sick to their stomach. A few experience a chronic pain in the neck, while sleep escapes…

Sep 26, 2020

Sep 26, 2020

Elayne Clift

Standing Up to Sterilization, Eugenics & the Abuse of Women

“Keep your hands off my uterus!” That’s an often-repeated placard and plea at women’s marches I’ve attended over the past forty years. In…

Sep 18, 2020

Sep 18, 2020

Elayne Clift

“Where is the Poor People’s Voice?”

That was a question put to a TV reporter by Rev. William J. Barber II after the Democratic National Convention last month. Barber, founder…

Sep 4, 2020

Sep 4, 2020

Elayne Clift

Will Burkhas Make a Comeback in Afghanistan or Can Women Prevail?

Last May, when militants in Afghanistan killed new mothers and their babies in a Kabul maternity hospital, the world’s women shuddered…

Jul 31, 2020

Jul 31, 2020

Elayne Clift

Call for contributions to anthology

Call for submissions! For poetry/prose chapbook or anthology, “A 21st Century Plague: Poetry and Prose of a Pandemic,” I am seeking…

May 30, 2020

May 30, 2020

Elayne Clift

The Death of Privacy: Big Brother is Watching You

May 1, 2020

May 1, 2020

Elayne Clift

Elayne Clift

Elayne Clift is an award-winning writer, journalist, lecturer and workshop leader. She has worked internationally in health communications & gender issues.

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