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Author: Kristen Levithan

A former teacher of history and writing, Kristen Levithan is now a freelance journalist who pens essays, profiles, and grocery lists while living in the Midwest with her husband and three kids. She offers cultural commentary and musings on modern motherhood at her blog Motherese.
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Happy 100th Birthday to the Revolutionary Rosa Parks

Happy 100th Birthday to the Revolutionary Rosa Parks

Kristen Levithan

Rosa Parks: a model of determined strength, passionate commitment, and radical courage, she dedicated her life to standing for the powerless.

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Sex, Drugs and Self-Absorption in Amy Sohn’s “Motherland”

Kristen Levithan

In Motherland, Amy Sohn offers a satirical, cynical look at life among the latte-sipping, Bugaboo-pushing parents of Brooklyn’s Park Slope. The novel, Sohn’s fourth, gets its title from the name […]

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A Starting Line-Up of Women’s Basketball Trailblazers

Kristen Levithan

When the 30th annual installment of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship tips off Saturday, fans will be glued to the screen, wondering if anyone can stop undefeated Baylor and […]

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100 Years After Marie Curie Set Nobel Record, Why So Few Women in Science?

Kristen Levithan

Marie Skłodowska-Curie, two-time Nobel Laureate, challenged scientific theories and generally accepted beliefs about women’s abilities, blazing a trail for generations of women scientists and professionals to come. But for women in […]

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10 Women Who Would Have Ruled the Blogosphere

Kristen Levithan

Centuries before Al Gore “invented the Internet” and we began blogging in droves, women were recording the details of their lives in journals, letters, memoirs and newspaper columns. From complaining […]

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