She experienced the worst of the worst, and with all the research I did, and eventually began to include her in when she was ready, we never really found anything to help her via a support group or even one person her age to talk to so she didn't feel so alone.
I therefore asked that they begin to include a reason for each major step if they knew it, along with any key questions they had about the entire experiment.
I began to notice results immediately, including increased consistency and correctness on problem sets, fewer "how do I approach this?" questions in office hours, and more coherence during discussion section.
I began to work with Twitter followers, including ones who gladly provided graphic design work for nearly every rally.
Writing the songs included here, I began to wonder: How do you ask people to take the time to learn to play them?
When I was about twenty I read the rest of the books and stories, and when I began to teach, about ten years ago, I usually included a Salinger story in every syllabus, usually demonstrating the use of dialogue to illuminate character.
Last Christmas, when Moineau gave Bruno a book of her own handwritten recipes, I began to read those too - it included her specialities, such as gratin dauphinois and pain de courgettes.
Then I began to understand that violence against women includes more than physical and sexual violence, but also this coercive control, specifically, control around women's reproduction.
After I moved on to other forms of storytelling, I kept on listening to women, including myself; so when I began to experience weird behavior -- going on an Outward Bound trip at 50, talking back to condescending sales people -- I was sure there were others in the same boat, and I set about trying to understand what was going on with the women of my generation in our fifties and sixties.
