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Give Me Back My Girlhood, It Was Mine First

On Taffy Brodesser-Akner's brilliant Taylor Swift story for the NYT, community, and collective cross-generational healing.

Abby Gardner
Oct 18, 2023
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Hi hi friends.

Over the past couple years, I’ve done a lot more thinking about community, what I seek from it, what I wish to bring to it, when I feel the sense of it most strongly. Part of that, I would surmise, is a reaction to the pandemic and having so many of our shared experiences ripped from us for a period of time. But also, I think it’s a facto…

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