This essaylet by Jill Lepore at The New Yorker about this week’s “scandalous” TIME cover gives the history of people losing their minds over the depiction of breasts and breastfeeding and birth and all that stuff in — trigger warning for those afraid of female body — public. When I was flipping through all the commentary this week, I kept thinking about this Lidia Yuknavitch essay on a related subject. Doesn’t this lovely Saturday seem like a good time to (re)read it?
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