Melissa Gira Grant
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Feb
08

"if those in power carry it out with impunity"

Friday Seven // 003
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Feb
01

"free and open and lazy"

Friday Seven // 002
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Jan
24

"a kind of apocalyptic cloud"

Friday Seven // 001
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Dec
01

People who I cannot prove ever met but could have

Here is my desktop today: an imaginary encounter between Pauli Murray (vagabonding in boy scout attire in Bridgeport in 1931)
Nov
28

What is a woman under the influence

I have such a hard time believing women who, claiming to be under the influence of feminism, decry that there&
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Nov
27

"The selves they last were"

I highlighted this and have no memory of highlighting it. "... but I ceased being sad about it when I
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Nov
26

Steps

I can feel the days before having to step out of the past again ticking down. I'll be
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Nov
22

American zone (leaving the)

When I'm done working for the day, I stop reading, unless it's fiction. And for as
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Nov
14

Red scare

It is difficult to convey how many of the arguments within feminism in the 1970s through the early 1990s are
Nov
13

The lynch mob is in Congress

“Of course no one who is opposed to this bill is opposed to lynching,” a senator from Georgia said from
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