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Select Blogs
Some of the blogs listed here no longer exist as this book goes to press, others are likely to have disappeared by the time of your reading, while others may have changed character as may be the case of the communities who read and communicate through them.
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Acknowledgments
I think of the community that formed at my now former blog Frances Farmer Is My Sister and elsewhere as collaborators on this project, the brilliant writers and bloggers who discoursed with me and challenged my thinking, whether commenting on my posts or on their own blogs, who were my community and support system in the void, for that brief time. Thank you for inspiring me, and for your generosity. To all my sisters, of all genders, who frequented the comment stream and read the blog, but especially to: Gina Abelkop, Kate Durbin, Roz Ito, Bhanu Kapil, Kari Larsen, Rebecca Loudon, Jennifer Lowe, Angela Simione, Andrea Quinlan, Kristen Stone, Bett Williams, and Jackie Wang. Much thanks as well to Mairead Case for her expert help with copy-editing.
I need to acknowledge my love and partner John Vincler, my collaborator and co-conspirator, always my first reader and indefatigable editor on all my books, especially this one. Thank you for cheering me on at every stage in this process, for always believing in me, even through years of writing and not publishing, and encouraging me never to censor myself, if it served the project, even if it involved making you a character.