Grandmothers

African Grandmother drawings by artist Sarah Weitzman                

Forward by Paola Gianturco It is possible that the stereotypical “grandmother” never existed? For many people in the Global North, the word calls up the image of a wrinkled, bespectacled, irrelevant old woman in a rocking chair. Perhaps she is crocheting something useless like an …

Below are my grandmother’s responses to my interview. — Shannon The opportunities for women differ today from when I was in high school and college in that there are far more of them to choose from. When I was applying to colleges, many colleges were still …

During the August, 2016 holiday, I interviewed my grandmother. This is what she had to say on different issues: I asked her what she thinks about education and she said: “Education makes somebody and without it, you are regarded a nobody in the society”. Her …