Today, I have a short celebratory post on the launch of the spring issue of Trivia: voices of feminism, for which I had the pleasure of co-editing a special issue on (pre)Occupation.  From my editorial: "Being a linguist, I found it impossible not to turn to the etymology of ‘occupy’ in this editorial.  The many meanings associated with the term range from ‘seize’ to ‘take possession,’ from ‘dwell’ to ‘take space or time’…The women who contributed to this issue knew these meanings all along. I don’t know if they consulted an etymology dictionary; more likely they consulted their minds and hearts and accessed the kind of knowledge and wisdom we sometimes don’t even know we have. And they expanded the meanings of ‘(pre)occupy’ without ever losing sight of our common denominator and of the invisible cable (yes, also same origin) that holds it all together.”

Make sure to access Trivia @ triviavoices.com to take a look at the wonderful prose, poetry and visual images by some very talented women.