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How Vocal Injury Can Change You

by Carolyn Wells January 27, 2021October 17, 2022

“But in ‘speaking around’ that injury, I was apparently projecting a new personality into the world: a more monotone, less enthusiastic, less engaged personality.”

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

The Adaptation of Language Evolution

by Carolyn Wells November 25, 2019October 19, 2022

Language has always changed, but the introduction of technology means it is adapting in ways we have never experienced before.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

The Laws of the Awards Podium Protest

by Soraya Roberts January 11, 2019October 19, 2022

Stars are increasingly using Hollywood awards podiums as sites of protest, but few of them are men, and even fewer are white men.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

‘The Artist’s Memory Is a Dangerous, Necessary Thing’

by heymarkarms July 30, 2014October 19, 2022

Memory is your greatest ally and your primary source material, because memory is your body as it was in the world and the world as it was and will be; memory is the people you have loved or wanted to love in the world, and what are we if not bodies filled with reminiscences about […]

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