“To hell with the world. Being in denial used to be my favourite expression until it became my life story. I have no wish to explain this any further to you. It's as simple and as true as anything I have written regarding myself.”

—Friedrich Nietzsche, from Selected Letters

“One day last week I pulled up to a four-way stop in my taxi. At one of the other stop signs sat a police officer in a chase cruiser, and at the third, a telephone installer in a Bell Canada van. What made the occasion memorable was the fact that all three of us were women. We celebrated with much joyful laughter and raised thumbs. Jill Wood Toronto, Ontario, Canada November 1980 issue”

Letters to Ms. – remarkable selections from  the “social media” of the 1970s and 1980s, the vehicle through which the women to whom we owe so much stood together and raised their voices.

I will write about the following, leave one in my ask box.

Dear person I hate,
Dear person I like,
Dear ex boyfriend,
Dear ex girlfriend,
Dear ex bestfriend,
Dear bestfriend,
Dear *anyone*,
Dear Santa,
Dear mom,
Dear dad,
Dear future me,
Dear past me,
Dear person I’m jealous of,
Dear person I had a crush on,
Dear girlfriend,
Dear boyfriend,
Dear [insert URL here],

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