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Creative Crossroads

4/11/2020

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~ Anna ~

In the past few years, two of my favorite creative projects, MeetMeInTheMargin.com and PositivelyPolyAnna.com, have gradually found an intersection through
#MindfulHearts illustrations like this one. 

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Originally published at PositivelyPolyAnna.com on 4/10/2020.
[image description: A heart with a metal brace on its right leg sits at a desk typing on an early model computer. Text reads: "Disability scholars are beginning to call for a change in the 'constricted and myopic thinking that has long characterized...the study of disability.' Some claim that it is comparable to 'confusing gynecology with the study of women in society, or dermatology with the study of racism.'"]

This collection of cartoons depict moments from my mother's essays, journals, letters, and other writings that she and I are diligently collecting into a co-authored memoir of her life. I'm excited for this creative union to grow and flourish, and to see what we dream up together next.

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    The Project

    An adventure in homegrown oral history making, Meet Me in the Margin takes the reader on a ride through radicalized Norwegian, American, disabled, mentally ill, queer, polyamorous, interfaith, and intergenerational landscapes, weaving together stories of love and transformation between worlds and across psyches.

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    Karen Hagrup

    ​physical disability
    immigration

    bisexuality

    ​As an anti-Skinnerian educator and mother, a disability studies pioneer, and a staunch Obama supporter, I have spent my life fighting for people's rights and joy, my own included.


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    Anna
    ​Hirsch

    mental illness
    interfaith

    polyamory

    As a feminist movement writer and as a relationship-focused psychotherapist, 
    I have come to believe deeply in the power of intersectional, intergenerational, joy-focused storytelling as a powerful act of resistance. 

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