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Author: Evan Karp

READING TO FUND GIRLS’ EDUCATION

READING TO FUND GIRLS’ EDUCATION

Posted on February 9, 2017March 11, 2024 by Evan Karp

In 2006, Kim Rosen arrived at the Tasaru Safe House in Narok, Kenya, and stood before a group of Maasai girls who had run away from their homes, and their tribe’s traditions of female genital mutilation and early marriage, seeking education and an alternate way of life. “I went with very personal, in a way, Read More

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MADISON DAVIS ON HER DEBUT BOOK, DISASTERS

MADISON DAVIS ON HER DEBUT BOOK, DISASTERS

Posted on January 26, 2017March 11, 2024 by Evan Karp

Disaster has long been an obsession for Oakland poet Madison Davis, whose debut book of that name is out this week from Bay Area press Timeless Infinite Light. “I think it came of my own experience of loss and grief,” she said by phone. “I’ve lost a lot of people; I deal with my brother’s Read More

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