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Finding Lost Voices: An Interview with Doireann Ní Ghríofa about her new book, Said the Dead (opens the original)
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In my early twenties, I worked at a state hospital called Goldwater on Roosevelt Island in New York City. My job was to teach creative writing to residents who couldn't leave. To be honest, I was scared the first time I walked into that institution and met my students. Some of them were bed-bound; one of them, Letecia, was paralyzed, and I had to learn how to communicate with her using a letterboard. Thankfully, she was very patient as I slowly learned to watch her eyes move to groups of letters
Finding Lost Voices: 2026 CrossFit Games and Beginning to Understand the CrossFit Community and How it Empowers Women - PART 3 (opens the original)
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This is the third segment on the CrossFit Community and how it Empowers Women. Thanks for reading along as I’ve worked on this chapter for my forthcoming book, Strong, which will be published by the University of California Press in 2028. If you support this project, please consider subscribing to this newsletter. This work requires research travel, and I do not have an institution that funds me. All of the money I receive from writing this newsletter goes toward research.<a class="button primar
Finding Lost Voices: 2026 CrossFit Games and Beginning to Understand the CrossFit Community and How it Empowers Women - PART 2 (opens the original)
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This is the second installment in a series of posts I’m writing about my experiences at the CrossFit Games in 2026. I was at the CrossFit Games doing research for my forthcoming book, Strong, about the history of strong-bodied women. In this chapter, I’m looking at how the CrossFit community empowers women to be strong-bodied.In the media room at the 2026 CrossFit Games, you get to know the other people who are there. Mostly, there are content creators, hoisting their high-end equipment around a
Finding Lost Voices: 2026 CrossFit Games and Beginning to Understand the CrossFit Community and How it Empowers Women - PART 1 (opens the original)
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As most of you know, I’m writing my next book, which means I’m on the road doing research. So here is a sneak peek at the beginnings of my chapter on CrossFit. I attended the 2026 CrossFit Games July 22-26, 2026, on a media pass.<img alt=""
Finding Lost Voices: Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area (opens the original)
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Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Rae Alexandra, the author of Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area (City Lights, 2026), to talk about what led her to write the book. Each mini biography in the book illuminates the story of a Bay Area woman whose story has been lost or forgotten and includes a graphic image drawn by Adrienne Simms (all the graphics below are also by Adrienne). The book origina
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