Manifestos: The Way Back

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At first I thought I had gone blind. Everything was fuzzy and I was jolted, hard. My ears either popped or I was still in slow motion, everything swirling. Why aren’t the children making noise? They were making too much noise just a moment ago, clicking and unclicking their seatbelts. Young boys playing a stupid [...]

An Unlikely Manifesto: Stories of Being a Girl

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  I am just stubborn enough to refuse to make New Year’s Resolutions. Instead, I’ll call them “goals” or “aspirations” or “manifestos”. The more I think about declaring this, for myself, the Year of the Girl, the more I am dedicating to it. Everything starts out as a small idea, right? What that means for [...]