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Polyamory & Polyassery: Lindy West's Adult Braces and Her Many Haters

What wave of feminism is it where we tell a woman she is too clueless to understand what is going on in her own marriage?

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The Transformational Power of Heated Rivalry, Revenge Fantasies, and "Escapist" Reading

There is a pervasive idea that serious fiction is purely a pursuit of the mind, meaning it is not of the body, of desire, of pleasure, of satisfaction and relief. It is not meant to be therapeutic or healing.

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Witnessing and Resistance in Sarah Bruni's Mass Mothering and ICE-Occupied Minneapolis

The stories of the activist group Mothers United in Mass Mothering are refracted through the lenses of layer upon layer of witnesses. We have seen this same thing playing out in Minneapolis, where people are looking, watching, witnessing.

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Canary in the Coal Mine: Long Covid in Fiction

The ongoing pandemic is affecting authors just as it's affecting everyone else. We’re not supposed to talk about it, and we’re treated with disdain if we take precautions to prevent infection. Just the same, authors are not supposed to write about it.