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The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Present Brazilian Politics

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Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women

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On the Public Historians Reminding Us How Easy It Is to Repeat the Mistakes of the Past

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M. Leona Godin Considers the Mundane, Profound Act of Translating a Picture

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“The Romantics,” a Poem by Maya C. Popa

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How Medical Racism Impacted the Work of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston

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