Anne Hellman
Anne Hellman is a Brooklyn-based writer and the founder of The Grandmother Project, @gmotherproject.
18/05/2023
"Who's Cooking," this month's newsletter from The Grandmother Project, looks into the Grandfluencer movement well underway, and what the year 2030 means for us all...
https://mailchi.mp/0c8623cd7314/whos-cooking
03/05/2023
14/04/2023
"I Believe in Ghosts..." Life@GWN introduces our inclusive community of , , , & . In our latest edition, Anne Hellman shares her commitment to giving back, her passion for women, and why ghosts regularly inhabit her imagination.
22/11/2022
My great-great-grandfather, Albert Hockstader, was, at one point in the 1890s, the president of the Hebrew Free School Association in New York. This month on The Grandmother Project I begin to dig into my German Jewish ancestry and how little I knew of it growing up in California, the Hebrew Free School Movement, and what I want to know more about now.
https://mailchi.mp/73d8cb484820/pulls-of-fate
23/06/2022
Are we moving beyond gender, maybe? The Grandmother Project's June newsletter looks at recent studies about transgender teens and contemplates a brighter future for gender equality:
https://mailchi.mp/d24fe479d7d8/beyond-gender
18/05/2022
28/04/2022
There may be more interesting subjects than family trees, but for me right now those subjects are few and far between. Family histories, and the roles we play in them, can be endlessly fascinating. This month's Grandmother Project newsletter thinks about family roles (thanks to Alexander Chee) as well as Maud Newton's excellent new book, "Ancestor Trouble".
https://mailchi.mp/cfac295d9520/family-roles
Maud Newton Page
Welcome.
I’m thrilled to introduce the new Grandmother Project website, an interactive archive where people from all over the world can share stories about the women who came before them.
Why grandmothers? Our connection to the past has been broken, or at the very least interrupted, and not in a good way. Young people everywhere have little sense of who they came from, and more importantly what those women did for future generations. The right to vote is one example. But there are all kinds of sacrifices our grandmothers made, all kinds of work inside and outside of the home that we have no idea about.
Grandmothers offer the perfect opportunity to hear from the past, to hear what we most likely missed.
We are calling out for “War-Time Stories” as our first monthly grandmother theme. And yes, that includes “Pandemic Stories” as well.
What did your grandmother do during war time? Whether it was WWI, WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War... what are her memories? Or, if your grandmother lived through a pandemic, as we are today, we want to hear about her experience.