Women Living the Questions

In this episode, host Ruby Tugade speaks with Diane Solomon, a nurse, midwife, psychiatric nurse practitioner, writer, and educator whose life has been rooted in caregiving.After decades in healthcare, Diane is stepping into a new chapter as a volunteer educator, teaching a more honest and complex history of Oregon. Her journey has included raising four children, moving through romantic relationships, and building a career devoted to understanding human nature.With candor and reflection, she talks about growing up fast, and shares the hard-won lessons of what she calls “slow love”. Now, she’s committed to reclaiming joy, and embracing a more spacious, self-compassionate way of being.Music: “Love” by Alex‑Productions, licensed under CCBY 3.0

In this episode, host Ruby Tugade speaks with Alexis Krasilovsky, an award-winning filmmaker, author, and professor whose career spans decades of experimental cinema, academic work, and women-centered storytelling.As part of the first class of women at Yale, Krasilovsky created her first film in 1970, End of the Art World, featuring Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns, now restored by the National Film Preservation Foundation. She has built a body of work that consistently challenges dominant narrative traditions.With her forthcoming novel, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Woman, she returns to the 1970s art world with a clarity that only comes with time, revisiting it as both participant and observer.ARTIST’S BIO:  Alexis Krasilovsky is an award-winning filmmaker of the documentaries Let Them Eat Cake and Women Behind the Camera. She was born in Alaska, survived sexual assault at gunpoint, and has traveled to twenty countries. Her first film, End of the Art World – featuring Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns – was made in 1970 while she was an undergraduate in the first class of women at Yale, and recently restored by a National Film Preservation Foundation award. (Her films are available on Kanopy.com.)Alexis is also a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet. Her pandemic poetry film, The Parking Lot of Dreams adapts poems from her book, Watermelon Linguistics: New and Selected Poems.Her most recent book is the forthcoming novel, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Woman, which will be released by City Point Press on September 8, 2026 and is available for pre-sale at Simon & Schuster (https://bit.ly/4sG9Zvc).Alexis has an MFA from Cal Arts and is Professor Emerita at California State University, Northridge. Her pro-choice hologram, Childbirth Dream, was exhibited at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris.Alexis lives in Los Angeles and likes to dye her hair purple and blue.For more information, see http://alexiskrasilovsky.com.Music: “Love” by Alex‑Productions, licensed under CCBY 3.0

In this episode of “Women Living the Questions", host Ruby Tugade speaks with Edith Terry, a journalist and cultural observer whose life and career span continents, industries, and eras of profound global change.Edith began her journey as one of the early women to graduate from Yale, navigating the complexities of gender in elite academic spaces. From there, her path led her across the world, from her childhood in the Philippines to roles in Washington, New York, Beijing, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, where she has lived for over two decades.She shares her experiences working in China during the 1970s as an interpreter for U.S.-China trade delegations, offering a rare glimpse into a pivotal historical moment. Edith also reflects on her transition into journalism, and the insights she’s gained from a life spent observing people and change, up-close.The conversation also turns to her personal passions, from dragon boating in Hong Kong to her deep appreciation for Asian art, and how these practices have influenced her understanding of teamwork, beauty, and attention.At its core, this episode is about embracing uncertainty and finding meaning in a life defined not by a single path, but by continual transformation.Music: “Love” by Alex‑Productions, licensed under CCBY 3.0