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"Writing bravely means something different today."

"The Gift

I speak from the deep end of night.
Of end of darkness I speak.
I speak of deep night ending.

O kind friend, if you visit my house,
bring me a lamp, cut me a window,
so I can gaze at the swarming alley of the fortunate."

—Forugh Farrokhzad (tr Sholeh Wolpé) via

"Kramer’s readers didn’t need the Malleus to be true. They needed it to give their fear a name, and a method.
So do these boys."

"I see countless think pieces about support, access, inclusion, persistence, belonging, and student success. I see almost nothing about purchase memory, product comparison, and seller accountability, even though parents who went to college have a lot to say about how the product has gotten so bad that 'navigation' through bureaucratic mazes and required apps is the rule, not the exception." —Hollis Robbins via

"For the first two years, they didn’t have an office."