“Here she comes, running, . . . off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.”
–Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Having recently moved east of my Eden, from the Pacific Ocean to the Appalachian Mountains, south of the Mason-Dixon line from Northern California, from sixteen years of unyielding dedication to Title-I public schools to an unexpectedly early retirement, from earning a paycheck since I was fourteen-and-a-half years old and working up to three jobs in order to…
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Ms. Z is a veteran schoolteacher, a freelance writer/editor, and full-time working mother again, after accepting a supporting role at her child’s school. She recently moved from the San Francisco Bay to the Appalachian Mountains, where she is learning to live in the woods with bears as well as to enjoy the regular exercises of…
“Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist Leader,” a report by guest blogger, Little B, age 11
Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist Leader Frederick Douglass did not know the exact day or year he was born. He did not have a birth certificate either (Elliot 9), because he was born enslaved in Maryland. He was assigned to serve in his master’s plantation house at a young age (Elliot 10). In the 1800s, “[s]ome Southerners…
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