Staff writer Priyanka Voruganti met with iconic performance artist Carolee Schneemann for an interview with The Feminist Institute a few months ago. The interview was Schneemann’s last interview before she passed last two weeks ago. Voruganti shares the behind the scene with us, exploring themes of identity and celebrity within the interview meeting. An encounter between a long-time admired icon at the end of her life and a young woman about to start her own path as an artist.

Bi-weekly In The Works writer Priyanka Voruganti is back with an ode to American bestseller author and filmmaker Chris Kraus.

I'm eight, and I'm swimming in a pool. I'm in Georgia. I'm alone. My dad is somewhere doing work, and my brother is at the other end of the abyss. I'm kicking my legs. The other eight-year old girls are kicking their legs. I can kick like them, but something is always off.

The lady is sitting down, holding a pen. A piece of blank paper is in front of her. She fiddles with the instrument. She breathes, and she writes. What is soon to come is Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex.

In this column, 15-year old Priyanka Voruganti explores her identity as a young feminist, an artist, and a POC through a combination of fiction, poetry, and personal essay pieces. She hopes to deliver the experiences of a young girl "in the works" of developing a perceptive eye on the world around her.