Lizzie Skurnick's Blog

In promoting the “myth of white self-sufficiency,” the “Little House” books rewrite history

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Why I Took My Young Son to Protest

Watching My Son Grow, and My Mom Return to Childhood

Wedding, Shmedding

How I Shopped for My Son’s Sperm Donor

The Royal Baby and Blackness as a Badge of Honor

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I Guess I Was Ready

Remember* this entire recitative about the Gift of Magic cover I could never find, no matter how often I scoured used book tables on Sixth Avenue, so much so that I actually thought it was possible I was going crazy?

My best friend had it in her room the entire past year, having no knowledge of my search, meaning to give it to me.

A Gift of Magic

BEHOLD the true cover of A Gift of Magic! Which Lois actually HAD NEVER SEEN! Which was a psychic bond between me and my BFF! And which is being reissued, incidentally, imminently!

* you obviously completely do not have to remember