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Daly RipplesMay 26, 2010 Yeah, I'm still here -- riding the whirlwind, it seems, but it's carrying me in the right direction. One thing for sure: when spring officially turns to summer, I'm going to be in a whole different place than I was when winter turned to spring. No, that doesn't mean I'm leaving Martha's Vineyard. Yes, I would consider any plausible opportunity to live somewhere else. Mary Daly's death at the very beginning of the year prompted me to write about Mary in my bloggery. Mary's death and my blog have been rippling outward. I e-mailed the blog link to women I thought might be interested. One result was that the Women's Review of Books asked if I could turn it into an obituary. Sure, said I. To write an obit, I had to know more about Mary's life, so I read her essay "Sin Big" (published in The New Yorker in 1996) and Outercourse (1992), her personal, political, and philosophical autobiography, both for the first time. The obit wound up looking not much like the blog; it should be out any day now in the May/June WRB. Also available soon will be my next "One Wired Sister" column for the WRB blog, Women = Books. I was going to write about the hidden assumptions of editorial style; Martha, the blog editor, suggested a Daly tie-in; and what emerged was some thoughts on copyediting inspired by reading Mary Daly, whose approach to capitalization and punctuation did not abide by The Chicago Manual of Style. It looks as though Lise Weil, co-editor of Trivia 10, and several contributors, including me, will be doing a panel at a "Lesbians in the 1970s" conference being held in New York in October. Online discussions about that combined with my two Daly memorials and resulted in an invitation to appear on a radio broadcast in Daly's memory. That happened this afternoon. The co-hosts were in Maine; I was on Martha's Vineyard. It was great fun but too short. There's going to be a sequel next Wednesday, and I've been asked to join in that one too. One of the co-hosts was Carolyn Gage, a playwright and performer whose stunning essay "The Inconvenient Truth about Teena Brandon" is in Trivia 10. We've had some interesting e-mail conversation about Daly, feminism, and recovery -- with more to come, I hope: for so many years my radical feminist self has had no one to talk to, but since the death of my sourdough starter a year ago March and the essay it inspired, She is slowly waking up. Thanks to my two Daly pieces, the Women's Review of Books realized that I could write about something besides science fiction -- this is good, because I'm not sure I can write well about science fiction anymore -- and assigned me two books about women's music. That's what I set out to write about, but as usual the muses had other ideas so I'll get to that tomorrow.
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