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What We Talk About When We Talk About Batman
Here’s a story, one I often tell: when I left my boyfriend Paul, I was strong, telling him I deserved better. I was the Girl Who Took No Shit. Not long after, I met my current boyfriend Mike, who is...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Whittier
The music of whose liquid lip Had been to us companionship, And, in our lonely life, had grown To have an almost human tone. Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about,...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Gryllacridids
Imagine a dark room, people pressed in all around, the acoustics of the auditorium raining sound down everywhere, even inside of you. Imagine the giant, thumping sounds of a heartbeat: ba-bum, ba-bum,...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Thirteen
Three days into my new life living in Manhattan, I rode the 6 train to midtown then walked to Central Park to see Ingrid Michaelson’s SummerStage concert. It was the perfect kind of summer in the city...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About City Dogs
Django My dog has health insurance, but I don’t. Were we to cross a street and get hit by a taxi, he would certainly fare better than I. A lowly adjunct, I’ve been pleading my case to Medicaid for...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Herstory
For a 1929 scandal, this one still remains juicy. Headlines read, “DNA test reveals Warren Harding’s hanky panky.” Another claims “Warren Harding: America’s Horniest President.” They call Nan...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About The Point
“What’s the point?” my student asked me the other day, at the end of a particularly difficult class period featuring technology issues, chatty, inattentive students, and blank stares. “Of what?” I...
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