Susanne Paola Antonetta’s newest book is The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being Here. Awards for her writing include a New York Times Notable Book, an American Book Award, a Library Journal Best Science book of the year, and others. Her essays and poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The UK Independent, Orion, The New Republic and many anthologies and featured on CNN.
After being sterilized in Nazi facilities, Dorothea Buck dedicated her life to being a psychiatric activist.
“As long as we talk to each other,” she said again and again until the end of her life, “we don’t kill each other.”
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