Tag: life
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Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells These Stories: Orlando and Narratives of Trauma
“There are no words.” There’s also no counting how many times I’ve said that in response to various facets of the Orlando shooting: first, the burst of reports; then the rising death toll; then the slow unraveling of each victim’s biography; and then, the aftermath, the responses — in forms both heartwarmingly compassionate and shamelessly…
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Words and Phrases (Not Quite) Legally Defined
“Words are the currency of law,” our professor said, capping off our block’s introduction to legal history. Who gets what, when, and how — that, he said, was the meaning of power, and it was a meaning that law could write and change with mere words. I was riveted. As a recent literature graduate just…
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