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Essay Paradoxical possibility: embracing anti-racism’s contradictions
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Anti-racism work is paradoxical. It requires the capacity to straddle contradictory yet interdependent realities that seem irreconcilable but must and can both be navigated.
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Essay Pi Day with John Horton Conway, revisited
March 12, 2025
Over several years, while writing Genius at Play, my biography of the always wondrous yet often pernickety one-of-a-kind mathematician John Horton Conway, I was plied by my subject with a smorgasbord of tales.
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Essay Emma Jung’s years of self-liberation
February 11, 2025
Emma Jung’s creative life is recorded in numerous handwritten notebooks and art portfolios, all of which lay undisturbed after her death in 1955. Until her documents in the family archive were systematically studied, she had not been thought of as a real contributor to the movement of analytical psychology, or as a full partner in her husband’s ground-breaking work.
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Podcast Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men
March 11, 2025
In Erased, Patricia Owens shows that, since its beginnings in the early twentieth century, international relations relied on the intellectual labour of women and their expertise on such subjects as empire and colonial administration, anticolonial organising, non-Western powers, and international organisations.
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Reading List Books to read during Women’s History Month
March 01, 2025
Throughout Women’s History Month in March, we will highlight books by and about women who have pushed boundaries, effected change, redefined roles, or who have complicated our understanding of what it means to be powerful.
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Essay Celebrating Bird Photographer of the Year
February 22, 2025
Photographers from "Bird Photographer of the Year: Collection 9" tell the stories behind their selected shots.
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