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Diane Moriarty

Diane Moriarty is a free-lance writer living in Manhattan.  She previously wrote an art review column for Able Newspaper as well as articles outside the column. At the close of the last century DISH!, an independent film she wrote, produced, and directed was given a run at Anthology Film Archives by Jonas Mekus.


Pot Shops and Snark Tanks

31 Mar 2026
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  As I walk through clouds of pot smoke on New York City sidewalks and scroll through the comments section of internet newsfeeds, the figure of speech “Bread and Circuses” comes to mind. Credit for this phrase belongs to Juvenal, a Roman poet of the late first and early...
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Sew What

27 Feb 2026
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  Fifteen years ago, someone in the United States would wear a garment seven to ten times before getting rid of it  Now it’s worn only two or three times. Roughly 11.3 million tons of discarded clothing winds up in U.S. landfills annually; about 60 percent of it made of...
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On Rape, Prolifers should Show Humility and Heroics

24 Feb 2026
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  When you Google “Battle of the Sexes” the first thing that comes up is references to the 1973 Billie Jean King–Bobby Riggs exhibition tennis match which was held at the Houston Astrodome. Televised internationally, the match was viewed by roughly fifty million people in...
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 With Fresh Eyes

27 Jan 2026
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  Well Dobbs is sure turning out to be a pro-life bust. Or is it? Since the 2022 Dobbs decision, which didn’t outlaw abortion but simply put its legality back in the hands of the States, voters in California, Michigan, Ohio, and Vermont have passed amendments to enshrine...
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Can We Have a Little Privacy Here?

30 Dec 2025
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  Since the Supreme Court could not find an explicit right to abortion in the Constitution to support their Roe v. Wade decision, they claimed instead that a “right to privacy” was implied in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which bars the state from...
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Rape Is a Pro-life Issue

02 Dec 2025
  Rape is the third rail in both the pro-life and pro-choice camps, but for different reasons. For prolifers life begins at conception, and since this includes embryos created during IVF procedures, certainly a child conceived by rape has the same right to life. But...
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Pro-choice Stepford Wives

25 Nov 2025
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  The Stepford Wives is a 1975 American film, scripted by William Goldman and based on Ira Levin’s 1972 novel of the same name. Goldman also wrote the screenplays for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and All the President’s Men (1976). Another of Levin’s novels was...
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Sew What

28 Oct 2025
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  Fifteen years ago, someone in the United States would wear a garment seven to ten times before getting rid of it  Now it’s worn only two or three times. Roughly 11.3 million tons of discarded clothing winds up in U.S. landfills annually; about 60 percent of it made of...
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Monkey’s Nephew

30 Sep 2025
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  What’s in a name? I was enjoying a nature show on television when the narrator said something that made me sit up, squint, grab the kindle I keep next to my easy chair, and go for Google. With orangutans swinging wildly through the branches, the speaker blithely informed...
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   It’s Always Nice to Get a Letter

26 Aug 2025
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  It was early last March, the day after my Aunt Marie’s funeral. My cousin Amy and I were returning to our hotel after spending a few hours clearing out her mom’s apartment at the assisted living facility where she had lived. It’s always a big job, and Amy had set a modest...
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