Quilts are among the most comforting of household items, especially in the winter months, when the urge to stay in bed for a few extra moments is the most powerful. They are a traditional baby gift providing warmth and security early on. But quilts never seem to lose the feeling of home. Well into adulthood, […]
Clancy Nolan
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A pretty good year
For activists seeking a moratorium on the death penalty, 2000 was a pretty good year. With a 14 percent decline in the number of executions performed in the United States this year (84 versus 98 in 1999) and a recent Justice Department examination of racial and geographic disparities in death-penalty sentencing, there is an indication […]
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The Chicago Project
Judy Chicago is short. Even with electric orange curls, which undoubtedly add a few inches as they rise and fall from her head, she couldn’t be much taller than 5 feet 2 inches. This is remarkable, because after reviewing her accomplishments and body of work, she seems larger than life. A second impression registers a […]
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Hit my wallet one more time
The snow-cone lines were the longest at Alltel Pavilion since Debbie Gibson. The only reason you could even see to the front of the concession stands was because the average height of ticket holders rarely surpassed four feet. Confiscated “I (heart) Britanny [sic]” posters were stacked outside the gates, freeing young hands for the acquisition […]
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Transfamily
Ginny leaned back in her chair and asked, smiling, “Have I completely blown your mind?” It was true, she had. Like many gays and lesbians, and even more straight people, I was utterly clueless about Ginny’s branch of the queer family until we started talking. Her experiences as a transgendered person were so new to […]