Michele Baron

World-traveller, Fulbright Scholar, author, visual/performance artist Michele is again relocating after having lived 3 years in Central Asia. Itinerant developer of outreach projects, seeker of knowledge, writer of poetry, prose, and non-fiction. Sometimes she reads aloud for audiences, and occasionally she receives recognition, such as “International Ambassador of the Word” and “Ambassador of the Spanish Word” from the Egido Delgado Serrano Foundation, and a Citation for Contributions to the Arts from Maryland General Assembly

March 13, 2022
Michele Baron
Gender, History & Culture, Special Feature

Women Struggled More Than a Century for Empowerment

In Copenhagen, 1910, at the Second International Conference of Working Women, German activist Clara Zetkin raised a vote, supported by women from 17 nations, to organise an International Working Women’s Day....

March 8, 2022
Michele Baron
Gender, Special Feature

chains, choices, chances, change … considering Women’s Day

A newborn does not care about the mother’s credentials, caste, class, culture, creed or colour — only that the mother’s arms are strong, her hands supportive and gentle, that there is...

July 21, 2021
Michele Baron
Cover Story, Special Feature, Travel & Food

tea, salt, and teranga

Not all salt harvesters are held in equal esteem. As in many economically-challenged zones across the world, outside Dakar, in the shallow basin of Senegal’s Lac Rose, salt workers...

May 9, 2021
Michele Baron
Poem, Short Story, Special Feature, Tribute

firefly

An enigmatic short story, by Michele, as a tribute to Tagore, a Special Feature, exclusively for Different Truths. “I really cannot understand,” her fingers pounded out on the keypad,...

April 25, 2019
Michele Baron
Advocacy, Short Story, Special Feature, Special Needs

zephyr

February 25, 2019
Michele Baron
Cover Story, Fairs & Festivals, Life, Rituals & Practices

we need not remain strangers

February 18, 2019
Michele Baron
Literature, Poem

snow

September 23, 2018
Michele Baron
Cover Story, Special Feature, Travel & Food

tea, salt, and teranga

Not all salt harvesters are held in equal esteem. As in many economically-challenged zones across the world, outside Dakar, in the shallow basin of Senegal’s Lac Rose, salt workers...

July 11, 2018
Michele Baron
Cover Story, Dissent, Human Rights

The Hunger of Oleg Sentsov

On the 15th of May 2018, one month before Russia celebrated the opening of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Oleg Sentsov began an indefinite hunger strike, which continues today...

April 24, 2018
Michele Baron
Short Story, Special Feature, Special Needs

the studio

A poignant story by Michele, concerning neurodiversity, for the Special Feature, exclusively for Different Truths. “When I am not prepping or playing a concert, or teaching, I paint,” he...

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