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Grace Paley’s “Wants”: Activism and Civic Involvement for Writers

Grace Paley’s “Wants”: Activism and Civic Involvement for Writers

  After years of dodging PTO meetings and volunteer opportunities, I became involved in a school overcrowding issue in my town because I didn’t want my children’s class sizes to become enormous. The problem seemed simple at first, but soon enough I was attending school committee meetings, spending hours writing emails, and holding forth at…