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I was ten when my dad changed his name from Rich to Rick. That one little letter was the first quiver of a seismic shift.
Dismantling the Patriarchy by Reclaiming Her Voice
In 2010, Elissa Bassist, then age twenty-six, wrote to Cheryl Strayed, a.k.a. Sugar from the Rumpus advice column Dear Sugar. She asked, “How do I reach the page when I can’t lift my face off the bed? … How does a woman get up and become the writer s
