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Hello loves !

Greetings from increasingly-freezing Boston.

I had a beautiful show last night for the Fall of Freedom, stories and photos to come (I’ll also chat about it on the webcast).

REMINDER; tomorrow is the huge autumnal web catch up.

This webcast is for the WHOLE Patreon - and it can go anywhere anyone wants…though we'll be starting off talking about the FOUR BOOKS we've been reading since the last book club. Don’t worry if you didn’t read any of the books. They were there to inspire discussion……the books were:

Lydi Conklin - Songs of No Provenance (FICTION)

Molly Jong-Fast - How To Lose Your Mother (MEMOIR)

Geraldine Brooks - Memorial Days (MEMOIR)

Adrienne Maree Brown - We Will Not Cancel Us (And Other Dreams of TRansformative Justice) (ESSAYS)

As I’ve said; we'll use the book themes as jumping off points. There's a lot to dig into with these, and a lot of places they might take us.

We'll be starting at 3pm EDT on November 23rd, and are scheduled to go for three hours (til 6pm EST) 

You can RSVP to get a reminder by clicking HERE:

https://www.crowdcast.io/c/6k79mtcvenof

See you tomorrow!!! Bring a blanket, bring a wine, bring a tea, bring a dog, bring your whole self.

Xxxx AFP

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Nikki

I'm going to miss this due to my family scheduling thanksgiving dinner for tomorrow at 2:00 central. I hope everyone has a good time though!

Dea

Look forward to it - thank you!

Coila

Sometimes, I think we are some of ourselves with various people but never our whole self with anyone. Is that just me? I think I probably was most of my whole self with my dad but even with him there was a thing or two that needed... Tamping down? A bit. My mom just straight up doesn't like who I am on a deep level and that's a problem/painful. But. Everyone has something. I feel like people can be their whole selves with me. I hope I'm right about that... But... I'd guess I'm not. FB had this "bring your whole self to work" thing going and I know they meant well but it sure felt a lot like the "let a thousand flowers bloom" thing that... Was it Mao Tse Dong? Did... Let everyone be who they are so we know who to target... 😅🤷🏻‍♀️ I suspect people can be their whole selves with you, Amanda. You're clearly Doing The Work. But. Sometimes I wonder if I even want to be anymore. Tbc, I'm not Fake with people. I just don't share all of who I am 🤷🏻‍♀️

tess

Yay! I can’t wait! I read songs of no provenance a while back and thought it was really interesting. I’m excited to talk about it with other people who’ve read it. I think being in grad school has taught me to think deeper about the things I see and read and I’m so excited about that.

Dea

Coila, I think we all wonder this about ourselves (if we have the capacity for such self-reflection, at any rate). It's why we suddenly declare our parents "fakes!" as teens (until we figure out what a "public face" is for), then spend the next few decades trying personalities, or facets of personality, on, till we grow weary of it, and want to "come home" to our real selves. Or, I like to think our 40s and 50s are for the discarding of such artifice, at any rate - a kind of a great relief of shucking the extraneous off. I am of course speaking in generalities, and merely on experience, and observation; occasionally we meet folk who are so themselves, at a younger age, that we are in turns fascinated, awed, troubled or even put off by them; it depends on what said "real self" is constituted of:) Sharing parts of our selves with some, not with others, is however a safety mechanism, and perfectly natural. Finding people you don't have to tread lightly with is such a gift, isn't it? And our relationships with our Mums can be fraught; judgement and tension our co-passengers in them. So you don't have to share all of yourself to be authentic. You seem PLENTY genuine, here! xx

Iris E.

Allllright, I'm finding a way to turn on notifications bc I am tired of not attending *every single fucking one of these*. GAH!!

Jan

I was going to buy a book yesterday by Amanda and the description was "I cannot bear to look at it".

Jan

I was bemused so asked why to find out that Amanda allegedly knew about Neil's rapes yet never went to the authorities about them and made a song from them. This lady said it didn't sit well with her so she wanted rid. My question is, is the above true? Did Amanda know if alleged rapes and not report them?