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EMMA GOLDMAN IN THE FREEDOM CAUCUS
About Me — Lauren Boebert
Moments of introspection from Paris and beyond
The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. — Betty Friedan
I wanted to take a moment to humbly introduce myself to my fellow Medium writers. Some of you may only know me through my work with Colorado’s third congressional district. I’m hoping my constituents and readers will understand that I’m a work in progress.
Although our politics may differ, we can still have respectful and thoughtful conversations about feminist existentialism and theory.
You may also be aware of the literary criticism I’ve published in The Writing Cooperative where I’ve focused on under-recognized women of magic realism — Laura Esquivel, Chitra Divakaruni Banerjee, and Arundhati Roy.
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. — Simone de Beauvoir
The photo from this article is from an important period of my life that received little attention from the mainstream media. In the fall of 2017, there was an unfortunate incident involving undercooked pork sliders from my restaurant. Several people…
