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  • Where Talalay fails to illuminate her subject, is when she portrays Philippa’s racial psychology in such broad strokes that it loses actual, specific meaning — a common flaw in depictions of mixed-race people. “[Her] racial makeup, a kind of chiaroscuro, signified her own duality,” Talalay writes. Do we ever really understand how? Not from the simplistic analysis to which the writer occasionally falls prey. Describing Philippa in her 30s, Talalay attempts to explain one of the low emotional swings Philippa was prone to by surveying photographs taken of her at that time. “There is something elu…
    TRAGIC MULATTO GIRL WONDER: The paradoxical life of Philippa Duke Schuyler | Lise Funderburg
  • William Sanger was arrested January 19, 1915, for handing out a copy of Margaret Sanger's 1914 pamphlet on birth control, Family Limitation.[4] In a statement before the Court of Special Sessions in New York City on September 10, 1915, William Sanger identified emotionally with his wife's work and referred to Anthony Comstock as a victim of "incurable sexophobia" who lacked "the intelligence to distinguish between pornography and scientific information."[1]
    William Sanger
  • Editing has an aspect of midwifery about it, particularly in how significantly you can support and alter a writer’s experience and in how amazing it feels to be the wingman on someone else’s creative endeavor. I felt fortunate to witness all of those creative processes. As for challenges, there were moments—especially with the writers I’d never met and whose body of work leaves me awestruck—that I had to fight off my own self-created intimidation. Who am I to question that word choice, that narrative trajectory, that sentence structure? But not asking those questions would have done everyone a…
    Behind the Book: A Q&A with Lise Funderburg – UNP blog