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Oct. 4, 2025
Today is Barbara Johnson’s birthday. I’m feeling particularly sentimental because I am working on a project about her — about the mentor in the text. Yesterday, I re-read Shoshana Felman’s afterword in A Life With Mary Shelley, and it made me cry. Like, I was sobbing, not only for the loss of BJ but for what her loss has meant to so many people who loved her. Felman was her friend, ex, colleague, confidant — and she wrote such a moving afterword. I had to take breaks while reading it, I was so overcome.
This week, I wrote about VP Kamala Harris’ 107 Days for the Women’s Media Center — I was surprised at how furious I was over her treatment by the Biden administration and campaign, because I was well aware of her being sidelined by them for the past couple of years. But, still, what a total glass cliff situation. What a “let me hired a Black woman to clean up my white mess” situation. It is wild. Just wild.
~ Marcie
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