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Dec 27, 2024 | 
thenation.com | J.C. Hallman
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Dec 27, 2023 | 
medium.com | J.C. Hallman |J. C. Hallman
[The Anarcha Archive is a series of short essays about the sources for Say Anarcha. A great deal more about the sources can be found at AnarchaArchive.com.] In our last essay, we found Anarcha’s final resting place. She died in about 1870, and was buried in the woods on the former Alto plantation. Fifteen years later, her husband was buried alongside of her. Today, in the last installment of the Anarcha Archive, we’ll look at what can be said about her final years.
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Dec 23, 2023 | 
medium.com | J.C. Hallman |J. C. Hallman
[The Anarcha Archive is a series of short essays about the sources for Say Anarcha. A great deal more about the sources can be found at AnarchaArchive.com.]In this essay, we’ll begin to look at the final turn of Anarcha’s life. Where she would be married, where she would have her final children, and where she would become free. For a long time, as I searched for Anarcha, I was stuck here, at Old Mansion, in town of Bowling Green, in Caroline County, Virginia.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
medium.com | J.C. Hallman |J. C. Hallman
[The Anarcha Archive is a series of short essays about the sources for Say Anarcha. A great deal more about the sources can be found at AnarchaArchive.com.] In previous essays, we looked at Anarcha’s life at Old Mansion in Bowling Green, Virginia. Today, we will continue to look at those years and begin to look at the final steps of her life. As we saw earlier, Anarcha was living here as of about 1854.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
medium.com | J.C. Hallman |J. C. Hallman
CHAPTER THREE — THE FATHER OF ANARCHA’S FIRST CHILD[The Anarcha Archive is a series of short essays about the sources for Say Anarcha. A great deal more about the sources can be found at AnarchaArchive.com.]When J. Marion Sims, the so-called “father of gynecology,” was first called to Anarcha’s case, it was to perform a forceps delivery of Anarcha’s first baby.
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Dec 2, 2023 | 
medium.com | J.C. Hallman |J. C. Hallman
[The Anarcha Archive is a series of short essays about the sources for Say Anarcha. A great deal more about the sources can be found at AnarchaArchive.com.]Anarcha was experimented on by the surgeon, J.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
thenation.com | J.C. Hallman |Victoria Law |Riley Roliff |Amos Barshad
August 3, 2023I witnessed the death of Jemaine Cannon. I was horrified. Ad PolicyOn the morning of the execution, I woke up in a crappy motel room in McAlester, Okla., and although the day before I’d thought frequently about what I would be doing if I knew this would be my final day, I now found myself wordless, affectless, calm. I did some pushups and crunches. I took a shower. And then I checked out and found some coffee before heading to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Moira Donegan |J.C. Hallman |Dave Zirin |Luis Feliz Leon
August 3, 2023Women are finding camaraderie in the unlikeliest of places at a time when the forces of sexism, homophobia, and transphobia are strong and emboldened. Ad PolicyThis article appears in the August 21/28, 2023 issue, with the headline “Barbie Land.”Asking “Is Barbie a feminist?” is a bit like asking “Why would a loving God allow so much suffering?” You’re not likely to get a satisfying answer, but the fact that you’re asking the question can reveal a lot about your situation.
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Jun 6, 2023 | 
thenation.com | J.C. Hallman |Mychal Denzel Smith |David Cole
When I wrote a cover story about the so-called “father of gynecology,” J. Marion Sims, for the November 2017 edition of Harper’s Magazine, I wanted to take him down. To ruin his reputation and topple the statues of him. I didn’t realize it would make me an apologist for cancel culture. Opinions vary as to whether the term “cancel culture” comes from rap or ill-fated television shows, and it didn’t exist when I began researching Sims in 2015.
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Apr 19, 2023 | 
lithub.com | J.C. Hallman
We first met in June 2021, at a residency at Marble House Project in Dorset, Vermont. We retreated to our studios to work for hours on end (Elizabeth on the last chapter of her novel Kantika, and J.C. on a near final draft of Say Anarcha), but somehow time expands at these residencies. Over dinner and perched atop the marble quarry behind the house, we had long, wandering conversations about life and love, politics, and art. Toward the end of our stay, the two of us gave a reading in the barn.
