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How a local suffragist led the mother of all movements

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was 26 years old when her first child, a son, was born.  โ€œI was entirely afloat, launched on the seas of doubt without chart or compass,โ€ she wrote in her autobiography, โ€œEighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815โ€“1897.โ€  Stanton was one of 11 children, five of whom died as infants and small children. As she watched her mother grieve the […]

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Why we fixate on โ€” and fetishize โ€” chefs behind the line

Thereโ€™s a reason chefs donโ€™t translate cleanly into daylight. They belong to the hours when the rest of the world is loosening its grip. When people are drinking, touching, confessing, unraveling. While everyone else is reaching for pleasure, chefs are manufacturing it. While the room fills, they disappear. That inversion matters. Tension lives there. Food […]

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In love and marriage, people with disabilities pay the priceย 

Stephanie Woodward is a disability rights attorney, activist and mother. She is also disabled and used to strangers asking her inappropriate questions.  โ€œThe amount of people who are shocked that I have children and ask me how it is done…โ€ she said. โ€œAnd I’m like, is health class illegal where you’re from?โ€  For Woodward, those moments are not just awkward or […]

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Rochester’s drag community is more than double entendres and dollar bills

The perception that drag equals sex sparked controversy this past summer when a drag bingo fundraiser planned to benefit The Child Advocacy Center of Greater Rochester was canceled due to widespread online backlash. Many commenters objected to a drag-themed fundraiser being tied to a child-welfare charity, arguing it made the event inappropriate or was misaligned […]

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