Writing is an act of resistance
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The President-Elect Speaks
President-Elect Trump, reproductive rights, back alley abortion, abortion poetry, The Story of Jane, Made in Detroit, Poetry, Marge PiercyBy Marge Piercy “You can always go to another state” to have your abortion just so long as you’re rich, have a nanny to watch your kids, can take off from your job, have a ride available or your own car, aren’t living at home or needing to hide the procedure. Yes affluent women…
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Twenty Ways to Protect Our Democracy
Professor Timothy Snyder, Black Earth The Holocaust as History and Warning, Bloodlands Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, EssayBy Timothy Snyder Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so. Here are twenty lessons from the twentieth century, adapted to the circumstances of today. Do not obey…
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White Privilege, This Is America
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