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she’s a bit controversial, some of her writing can get bleak or polarizing and doesn’t mesh completely with contemporary writing on gender/sexuality/feminism but I’ve been listening to audiobooks of her work one of the few social critics that has tried to analyze Joan of Arc as well as Nicole Brown Simpson - admirable
Apr 17, 2024

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