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Morning Open Thread: So May I Find My Place in This Shifting World
“My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass.”― Federico García Lorca _______________________ .Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a MOTley...
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WOW2: June 2023 – Women Trailblazers and Activists, 6-9 thru 6-15
June is Gay and Lesbian Pride Monthaka LGBTQ+ Pride Month"It is a whole new world out there … Whoever thought we'd get to say 'wife' or 'husband'? I got to put a ring on it!"—Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD...
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Morning Open Thread: What Is June Anyway?
“Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.”—Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet __________________.Welcome to Morning...
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Morning Open Thread: World Tessellation Day
Good morning, everyone and welcome to Saturday’s Morning Open Thread.Morning Open Thread is a daily, copyrighted post from a host of editors and guest writers. We support our community, invite and...
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WOW2: June 2023 – Women Trailblazers and Activists – 6-16 thru 6-23
June is Gay and Lesbian Pride Monthaka LGBTQ+ Pride Month“When you are doing something that is right, you just do it and take care … Someone has to do this.”–Alice Nkom, Cameroonian civil rights...
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Morning Open Thread: Wouldn't You Be Devastated If They Only Serve...
Everything you invent is true: You can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.— Julian Barnes, author of“The Noise of Time”_______________________.Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a...
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WOW2: June 2023 – Women Trailblazers and Activists – 6-24 thru 6-30
June is Gay and Lesbian Pride Monthaka LGBTQ+ Pride Month“We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about— survival and growth.”– Audre Lorde, self-described “Black, lesbian,...
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Morning Open Thread: Have You Forgotten What We Were Like Then?
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.”–Rainer Maria Rilke...
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WOW2: July 2023 – Women Trailblazers and Activists – 7-1 thru 7-8
This Month Marks the 175th Anniversary of the Women’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls“Away with your man-visions. Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.”–Susan B....
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Morning Open Thread: Even If They Set a Diamond in Your Glass Eye
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”―Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own__________________________.Welcome to...
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WOW2: July 2023 – Women Trailblazers and Activists – 7-9 thru 7-16
“History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.”―Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author of Well-Behaved...
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Morning Open Thread: For the Love of Dogs
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.– James Thurber...
View ArticleWOW2 – Editorial Edition: Reproductive Justice and Beating the Republicans
WOW2, the sister diary to This Week in the War on Women, covers Women’s History. It posts four Saturdays a month. There are five Saturdays in this month, and usually I wouldn’t be posting on this...
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Morning Open Thread: You’ll Have Poor Company On That Other Road
Late FragmentAnd did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.–Raymond Carver, on his tombstone...
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WOW2: July 2023 – Women Trailblazers and Activists – 7-17 thru 7-24
“They told me that, as a woman, I'd never get into graduate school in physics, so they got me a job as a secretary at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and promised that, if I were a good girl, I...
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Morning Open Thread – Wake Up, You’ll Need Your Wits About You
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting – over and over announcing your place in the family of...
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WOW2: July 2023 – Women Trailblazers and Activists – 7-25 thru 7-31
“… we are assembled to protest against a form of government existing without the consent of the governed – to declare our right to be free as man is free, to be represented in the government which we...
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Morning Open Thread: What Wind Now in the Long Hot Summer Morning Stirs
We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.”―T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding___________________.Welcome to...
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WOW2: August 2023 – Women Trailblazers and Activists – 8-1 thru 8-8
“Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your placein the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to...
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