Sunday, July 16, 2023

Sixteen Women in Search of a Poet


(One hundred years ago, some medical authorities warned that professional seamstresses were apt to become sexually aroused by the steady rhythm, hour after hour, of the sewing machine’s foot pedals.*)

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The above photograph, circa 1910-1920: sixteen horny women pose at their stations at a grubby sewing factory.

Right.


 

Horny Women at the Sewing Factory (Jennifer Semple Siegel)

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One hundred years ago, some medical authorities warned that professional seamstresses were apt to become sexually aroused by the steady rhythm, hour after hour, of the sewing machine’s foot pedals.
–circa 1910-1920
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Introducing Body Memoir Politic: Looking (A Play)



Body Memoir Politic:

Looking



A Play in Ten Scenes

by

Jennifer Semple Siegel



© 2008

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One pill makes you larger

And one pill makes you small

And the ones that Mother gives you

Don’t do anything at all.

Go ask Alice

When she’s 10 feet tall.


–Grace Slick, “White Rabbit”



Coming soon!

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

The Queen Bee (A Playlet)


The Queen Bee (A Playlet), by Jennifer Semple Siegel

Moved to WhyIWrite.com



Monday, February 11, 2008

Fiction: “Are You EVER Going to be Thin?” (Jennifer Semple Siegel)

Author, age 8. First Communion.


Hollywood, California

Oct. 1958

Dear Little Sammy Cuddler,

Happy birthday! So you are 8 years old. Such a little lady, I hear. Buy something pretty (not candy) with the enclosed check. You’re my little cuddler, and I want you to be happy.

Are you still fat?