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Free to Write: Transforming Writing Workshops with Radical Strategies
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What’s on your Shoulders that you are still carrying? (opens the original)
Asynchronous Writing Classes as Radical (opens the original)
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I’ve spent every year since 1981 trying to radicalize something — a class, a body, a trip, myself. That year I made a pledge: something new, every year, no exceptions. It started as a way to override a body that had spent its adolescence in a wheelchair, warned off anything that raised its heart rate. My history told me to be fearful, but my will wanted to redefine my capabilities. Radicalizing became a passion. Not a rule-breaker by temperament — someone who broke one rule, once, out of necessi
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