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Kristen Arnett’s Latest Subjects Are the Lesbian Parents of an Autistic-Coded Son Credit...Kimberly Elliott By Naoise Dolan WITH TEETH By Kristen Arnett He’s only a kid, but Samson is already burdened with a troublesome family member: His mother, Sammie, suffers from being on the non-autistic spectrum. He cannot meet her support needs for platitudes and eye contact, and so he is challenged by her difficult behavior. Samson’s own neurotype is unnamed but heavily autistic-coded: He...

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LLCC juried exhibit recognizes student artists Angela Bauer FacebookTwitterEmail 1of11 “Terra,” a wood-and-stone art piece by Maggie Miller of Jacksonville, won the Fine Art award for pieces submitted to the Lincoln Land Review as part of Lincoln Land Community College’s 2021 LLCC Juried Student Art Show.ProvidedShow MoreShow Less 2of11 3of11 5of11 6of11 8of11 9of11 10of11 “Take Me to the Water,” by Wilma Wofford of Springfield. The oil painting won Best in Show in Lincoln Land Commun...

So you loved Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem. Here’s who to read next By Michael Kleber-Diggs Globe Correspondent,Updated January 26, 2021, 5:13 p.m. Email to a Friend Recommended poets include Ross Gay, the late Lucille Clifton, and Joy HarjoNatasha Komoda, Mark Lennihan/AP, Shawn Miller/Library of Congress Amanda Gorman’s soaring inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb,” opens with an expression of yearning, a quiet recognition that America is enduring a time of darkness. �...

December 22, 2020 12:00 p.m. Cue up Vitamin C’s “Graduation” song, we did it. 2020 is [finally] coming to a close and it feels like some kind of an accomplishment that we’ve made it this far. It seems every year we talk about how time has that magical effect to both fly by and drag on but this year has somehow managed to feel like March for 300 days straight. I barely remember the month of August and somehow, Christmas is around the corner. Then we’re on to 2021, ...