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Creative Nonfiction by TRRJul 28, 20197:58 pmAugust 1, 2019
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The Line

The best protection any woman can have…is courage. ~from Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Fighting Together for Women’s Rights Hot. Too hot. I wiped the sweat from my face with a bandana already […]

Interviews & Profiles by TRRJul 28, 20197:53 pmDecember 23, 2020
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Squatting as Civil Disobedience

Despite there being an estimated one billion squatters worldwide (Neuwirth, 2004), Kesia Reeve has argued that “squatting is largely absent from policy and academic debate and is rarely conceptualised, as a problem, as a symptom, […]

Poetry by TRRJul 28, 20197:48 pmAugust 1, 2019
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Strange Fruit

for Abel Meeropol and Billie Holiday No one will hang you with a noose tonight,Either of sisal, hemp, or the chord of Southern steel. But falling on the narrowing alleys of your freedom,The Freudian slip […]

Poetry by TRRJul 28, 20197:44 pmAugust 1, 2019
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Refugee

I was a stranger and you welcomed me. To those with ears: a crisis looms— the sojourner is at the door of our strange land. Desperate, hopeful, hungry, tired, the least of these lie down […]

Historical Scholarship by TRRJul 27, 20198:04 pmJune 18, 2020
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Ectoplasmic Nervousness: Mediumship and Medicine

Sarah Turner was a devout Christian, a widowed mother, and a woman removed from her Rhode Island community because of a chronic illness. Sarah Turner also had visions. In her 1841 memoir, Turner writes that […]

Creative Nonfiction by TRRJul 27, 20194:50 pmAugust 1, 2019
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I Heard You, Did You Hear You?

Stripping my shoes off, I got behind the airport security line to go through the full body scanner. I looked around at the bins to my right, my Macbook alone in its plastic gray bin. […]

Poetry by TRRJul 27, 20194:31 pmAugust 1, 2019
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Hope is a Thing with Muscle

My teacher said I should not rewrite Dickinson,that we need fly-up, soar-to-skyrising-above-us guides. Wings. She’s wrong. Hope requires muscle,grit, I-will-do, flex of sinewhere. Present. Woke. Able. Stargazing and skywritingwill not move the plow. Push. Lift […]

Cultural Criticism by TRRJul 4, 20193:32 amSeptember 2, 2019
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On Declarations of Independence

Less than 75 years after the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence (1776), Elizabeth Cady Stanton presented the Declaration of Sentiments, at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first women’s rights convention organized […]

Cultural Criticism by TRRJul 4, 20193:30 amSeptember 2, 2019
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Three Rivers

The most recent season of The Handmaid’s Tale—the astonishing Hulu series that began as an adaptation of the novel by Margaret Atwood—begins by gesturing to what nineteenth-century readers experienced as their own most thrilling, dystopian, […]

Poetry by TRRJul 4, 20193:15 amJuly 4, 2019
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Unholy Triptych for the New Immigrant

Madres— women forced to spreadtheir legs, open their mouthsto coyotes in desertsinside shipping containershooked to Mack Trucks,husbands and childrentorn from them—your tired your poor Padres—men in safe housesalong the long routebraving bordersstarved and beatenbadgered and […]

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