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Watching Crip Camp in 2024
Watching Crip Camp in 2024

Politicians like Stefanik and the billionaires who love to exploit their vapidness will always be fighting to go backwards. Which is why Crip Camp is essential viewing now, in 2024, and forever after.

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Sara SchaffMarch 3, 2024ADA, Crip Camp, 504, Judith Heumann, activism, disability rights, Elise Stefanik, Camp Jened, Disability Rights, Congress, George HW Bush, Jimmy CarterComment
Bad Words
Bad Words

The problem is not writer’s block; it feels more like writer’s mud.

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Sara SchaffFebruary 26, 2024writing, creative writing, writer's block, ugh, muddy, muddledComment
The Age of Sincerity
The Age of Sincerity

To be called the sincerest felt like a patronizing consolation prize—good effort, kid!—when what I wanted to be was good.

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Sara SchaffFebruary 11, 2024sincerity, art, creative writing, Tracy Chapman, ambitionComment
Meanwhile, Over at Saranac Review
Meanwhile, Over at Saranac Review

For the last couple of months, in my capacity as editor of Saranac Review, I’ve been working with Prose Editor Gbolahan Adeola on a special issue about making art in times of crisis.

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Sara SchaffFebruary 2, 2024Saranac Review, Litmag, making art, hope, crisisComment
Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo
Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo

I found a revelatory reading experience, perfect for the moment we are in: a book about individuals with their separate hopes and fears, brought together by a need for home, hope, and the safety and support of a collective.

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Sara SchaffJanuary 21, 2024Welcome to Lagos, Chibundu Onuzo, Lagos, Nigerian Fiction, Nigerian Literature, Novel, Hopeful FictionComment
Truth is the Only Real Hope
Truth is the Only Real Hope

The UnReformed podcast has been in my feed for months, but I put off listening to it until last week. I knew it would be hard to listen to, but once I started, I couldn’t stop; the story is too urgent.

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Sara SchaffJanuary 8, 2024Unreformed, Podcasts, Truth, Mt. Meigs, Josie Duffy Rice, juvenile detention, systemic racism, carceral systemComment
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