To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed. Joan Didion I have never been to California. I wonder, should I be exposed to its reality, if what I choose to write would differ.ContinueContinue reading “Notes on a West Coast”
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On Being a Woman (IV) & Being Stripped of Our Rights
This piece was written on the 24th June 2022. Today is a monumental day. It is a monumental day in the same way that for our grandmothers, just shy of fifty years ago, it was a monumental day. It’s not even taken half a century. In under half a century, a progression of maybe two generations, women’sContinueContinue reading “On Being a Woman (IV) & Being Stripped of Our Rights”
On Being a Woman Part II: The Right to Choice
Belatedly adding some externally published writing to my own blog today, including this addressing the regression of reproductive rights in Texas last year. Dr John Sharpe of London, who in 1957 took the considerable risk of referring for an abortion a twenty-two-year-old American on her way to India. …On Being a Woman Part II: TheContinueContinue reading “On Being a Woman Part II: The Right to Choice”
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