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Deborah Lindsay Williams

Deborah Lindsay Williams

The Body of the Doctor

I wrote this post in 2009. I thought, like so many of us, that surely — SURELY — shooting a doctor in a church was as bad as it could get…

5 min readJun 27, 2022

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The Body of the Doctor

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Deborah Lindsay Williams

The Surprising Optimism of Dystopian Teaching

Last fall, I taught a class on dystopian fiction that seemed like an exercise in redundancy: The entire world was caught in what felt like…

5 min readMay 25, 2021

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The Surprising Optimism of Dystopian Teaching

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Deborah Lindsay Williams

The Season of Grief Bacon

Early in Pandemic Time — so early that it almost seems like the Before Time — I was talking to a friend about the Covid Kilos. I’d been…

4 min readDec 25, 2020

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The Season of Grief Bacon

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Deborah Lindsay Williams

The Power of The Shadow King

I’ve been talking lately with my students about the question of history: how do we all navigate the weight of the history –the histories —…

4 min readOct 5, 2020

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The Power of The Shadow King

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Deborah Lindsay Williams

The Biggest Bluff

A long time ago, I spent a rainy afternoon in a VW bus with three friends learning to play poker. We were in Montauk, at the easternmost…

5 min readSep 16, 2020

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The Biggest Bluff

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Deborah Lindsay Williams

You Old Girls

When was the last time you read a book that was about women’s friendships? Aside from Elsa Ferrante, that is? And what about friendships…

3 min readAug 14, 2020

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You Old Girls

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Deborah Lindsay Williams

Dorian Trump

Remember the story of Dorian Gray and his portrait? It’s Oscar Wilde’s version of the Faust story, in which a beautiful young man sells…

5 min readJan 6, 2020

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Dorian Trump

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Deborah Lindsay Williams

A Tale of Two Totes

Both Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris put out Pride tote bags. Because they’re the only candidates I really care about (could the B-boys…

2 min readJul 12, 2019

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A Tale of Two Totes

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Deborah Lindsay Williams

Aspiration: Crone

Quarantine has me feeling old, old, old. I’m living in basically the same incredibly comfortable dress that is only about two steps…

6 min readMay 30, 2019

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Aspiration: Crone

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Deborah Lindsay Williams

World Preemie Day & Turning 17

Those are my son’s feet, actual size, on the day he was born. He was a preemie, and although he was supposed to be a January Capricorn, he…

4 min readNov 17, 2017

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World Preemie Day & Turning 17

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Deborah Lindsay Williams

Deborah Lindsay Williams

Ambivalent New Yorker in Abu Dhabi (no, not Dubai): feminist, writer, PhD, skeptical seeker of beauty (she/her), #binder. http://linktr.ee/mannahattamamma

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