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gwynnega ([personal profile] gwynnega) wrote2011-04-28 01:07 pm
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Joanna Russ

Joanna Russ has been admitted to hospice after a series of strokes.

Joanna Russ's work has been important to me for such a long time. I think I was still in my teens when I first read her How To Suppress Women's Writing, and I suspect I know much of it by heart. (I remember showing this book to a (white male) writer friend of my dad's when I was in college, and he, no lie, threw the book to the ground!)

It's hard to imagine losing such an utterly irreplaceable writer and thinker.

[identity profile] pastels-badge.livejournal.com 2011-04-29 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
Good anecdote! I feel like that is exactly the reaction she would have wanted for her book--for it to empower young women and freak out older white dudes.

I love How to Suppress Women's Writing but for some reason I've never read anything else of hers. I need to do something about that.

[identity profile] stevie-carroll.livejournal.com 2011-04-29 08:16 am (UTC)(link)
That is such sad news.