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Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon
2000s-era internet countdowns marked time until a teen star’s sexual availability—Katherine Fusco winds back the countdown clock on Lindsay Lohan, her predecessor Shirley Temple, and girlhood as the not-yet.
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AHS: My Roanoke Nightmare and our Incoherent Understanding of Trump Voters
The horrors of the American margins, both geographic and political
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Children and Choices: The Meanings of Inoculation
James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Jenny McCarthy between their children and the world: healthcare and choice in the era of Black Lives Matter
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