8th of December, 2023 LGBTQ+ people have existed throughout all of time. Some eras more heavily stigmatized them than others, but nonetheless, they have existed. Therefore, lesbian women are no strangers to having to hide their love, especially moving through the 19th and 20th centuries, as, quite honestly, being openly queer hasn’t been widely accepted… Continue reading Our Lesbian Grandmothers: Lesbian Historical Love Letters
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Abigail and Emily: Feminine Connections to the Past
October 23rd, 2023 to October 29th, 2023 This week, there was a significant focus upon historical letters of note. For my first letter, I selected a letter of Abigail Adams’, wife of John Adams and former First Lady of the United States, and for my second letter, I selected a letter of Emily Dickinson’s, the… Continue reading Abigail and Emily: Feminine Connections to the Past
Letters from the Past: WWII Muhlenberg Alumni
Weekly Writings 9/4/2023-9/10/2023 This week, I was very excited to get hands on with actual letters, reading and analyzing. My partner and I read letters from Second Lieutenant John R. Kern, who turned out to be a very interesting man from what we read in his letters. Personality-wise, I felt as though we didn’t learn… Continue reading Letters from the Past: WWII Muhlenberg Alumni
Weekly Writing 8/28 – 9/3
Letter Writing Letter writing to me is an essential form of communication. It’s more than just words on paper, mailed in an envelope. It’s correspondence, it’s love, it’s history, all of those things and more. It means more than just a text message or an e-mail. Time was put into that letter, pieces of that… Continue reading Weekly Writing 8/28 – 9/3
