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- "When I pitched this class to the English chair, I believed Harris would win and we’d spend the semester making interesting literary connections to her sober policy choices. I didn’t foresee that the canon itself would leer at our nation’s pathetic descent into discount fascism."
- NEW COLUMN ALERT: Taylor Harris on being diagnosed with autism as an adult: "If I think of Autism as Place, then I arrive late at age 41, a bit timid, uncertain of the right words to say, but certain in what I know to be true: 'Hi, I’m new here. And I’ve always belonged here.'"
- "Trump has accepted this gift with nothing but the utmost openness and transparency. It’s not corruption if it’s done shamelessly in full view of the public eye. We haven’t read The Federalist Papers, but we’re pretty sure that’s in there somewhere."
- "Children stand in the middle of Sesame Street, taking turns injecting each other with puberty blockers—the only activity kids are allowed to do in this fifteen-minute city. Big Bird enters wearing assless chaps..."
- "I didn’t stop to smell the roses enough. If I’m being honest with myself, there were other things I didn’t smell enough. If I’m really being honest, I could have licked more stuff too."
- "Thirteen bells: A customer has requested that a crew member 'check the back' for a specific item."
- The question isn’t whether people like my daughter have something to offer. It’s whether society is finally ready to stop measuring value with the wrong scale. Autism doesn’t destroy families. Ignorance does. Isolation does. Shame does.
- Reposted by McSweeney'sSo relatable.
- "I imagine that you are still sleeping at this moment safe in your own bed."
- "Alice Chamber, who, after three vaginal births, can no longer hiccup without wetting her pants, and who will be honored for her sacrifice with eggs benedict and a necklace made from rigatoni."
