Comments on: Happy Birthday Mom

By: :)

:) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:11:00 +0000

You can be proud :)
at the Sorbonne, in Paris, we are dealing with “woman and the myth of consumerism”!

By: Introducing: the Ellen Willis archive

Introducing: the Ellen Willis archive — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:17:15 +0000

[...] my shit together and put together an online archive of my mother Ellen Willis’s writing. My mother, a radical feminist writer, thinker and activist, wrote about everything from sex to war to [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:05:53 +0000

Nona,
Your Mom’s writing is wonderful and has meant a lot to me…she was very, very cool! I’m sorry she left us early.

By: stanley aronowitz

stanley aronowitz — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:17:02 +0000

I have just re-read the Sontag and the Voice and feminism pieces. She often said how important Sontag was for her own aesthetic and political development. But this article goes way beyond an obit.The Sontag piece could be read as a re-statement(pt 1 and 2) and farewell(pt.3 on death) of Ellen’s philosophy. As Nona says we miss her presence in the flesh, but her influence lives on.

By: Nona

Nona — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:56:04 +0000

Ned–yup, I mention that in my post–it was a great tribute.

By: caroline

caroline — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:54:38 +0000

Your mom allowed me into one of her graduate cultural reporting classes when I was still in undergrad at NYU. I’m not sure why, but I’m glad she did. She’s the best professor I had while I was there, and the one whose face/voice/etc. I can most easily conjure up almost a decade later.

By: Ned Stuckey-French

Ned Stuckey-French — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:49:49 +0000

Nona,

Writer’s Almanac mentioned your mom today as well:

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/

I’m an old friend of Emma’s parents.

Ned S-F