Jennifer Baumgardner
Jennifer Baumgardner is the editor of LIBER and the Lucille Geier Lakes writer-in-residence at Smith College. She is producing The Body of Mary: A Play in Three Acts (of God), a new play by Katie Cappiello.
- Primary Sources
In 1991, a fat teenaged girl with a prosthetic leg named Nomy Lamm wrote and distributed a xeroxed-and-stapled, passport-sized zine called i’m so fucking beautiful. Part manifesto, part personal essay, it offered a nuanced critique of Fat Is a Feminist Issue, the 1978 self-help best-seller that theorized the psychological and
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- Close Encounters
Ellen Willis with typewriter, giant headphones, and bag from Eli Zabar WHEN I LEFT Ms. magazine in 1997, one of the first people I called for advice was Ellen Willis. I was having an identity crisis. Ms., which had been my way into New York and journalism, was a dream
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- We're All Gonna Die
Bloomsbury Publishing, 128 pp Oakland-based artist Wendy MacNaughton spent 2017 at the Zen Project Hospice in San Francisco, sitting with residents, listening to them reflect on death. She wrote down what she heard and drew what she saw. “Drawing is a way we can look closely at something we might
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