Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Round Letters
When you are ten years old and a girl and the year is 2000 and you enter a store like Maido, parents and other forms of chaperone do not get encoded into your memories. Adults are a mechanism you use to access such a wonderland, but within its magical borders they cease to exist. The […]
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Writing and the Body
I’d probably been using the words gross and disgusting to describe my writing for months before I noticed them. My internal self-talk has never been overrun with kindness or tact, so it wasn’t hard for them to sneak in. But one morning last fall, as I prepped for a session with my writing group, I […]
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After I Am Raped, I Write a Book and Do Not Use the Word Rape
A lot of people are raped every year, and they all fall into one of two major categories: those that report it and those that do not. There are many, small nuances after that, hundreds of tiny decisions that make each one of these earth-shattering disasters unique, but these are the two biggest ones because […]
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30 Books We Can’t Wait to Read: April 2024
Fiction A Good Happy Girl by Marissa Higgins – April 2 (Catapult) “A Good Happy Girl offers an unwavering look at a young woman for whom wavering has been a way of life. Higgins’s heroine makes for a compellingly prickly protagonist, an uncertain someone who the reader nonetheless wants so much to hug. This keen-edged […]
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The Problem with the Evangelical Story Structure
Before I started writing memoir, I was trained in a different narrative form: the evangelical testimony. In evangelicalism, a testimony is each person’s story of how God saved them. First I was sinful, the template begins, and I suffered because of my sin. Sin is brokenness, and brokenness causes suffering. The ideal testimony starts here, […]
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