Notes on the Galvanization
Abstract
Student essay (and response to the Women’s March) on a post-election political awakening from the perspective of the author, a handicapped, bisexual white male from North Mississippi currently studying creative writing at Notre Dame, with a special interest in the dynamics of fatherhood and patriarchy; extensively cited with contemporary news sources.
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