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Paula Kamen

@paulakamen.bsky.social
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Playwright and author of All in My Head, Her Way, Finding Iris Chang. For upcoming readings of Jane play, see paulakamen.com. Founder of HystericalFest. Streaming here for 3 months after August 28: paulakamen.eventbrite.com

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Paula Kamen @paulakamen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#ASL version now streaming thru 11/28/26 Tickets at www.eventbrite.com/e/1995245020...
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Paula Kamen @paulakamen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Chicago Reader delivers about HystericalFest, live in Evanston this weekend and then streaming for 6 months. First feminist theater festival on invisible disability
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 22/08/2026
“For every sick person who’s loud or demanding or belligerent, somewhere within a medical suite there’s another who’s sugarcoating, suppressing or understating her pain,” Allison Sweet Grant writes.
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Opinion | Why Women Learn to Reassure Their Doctors That Everything’s Just Fine
Is it OK to raise this issue? I don’t want to be a bother.
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Paula Kamen @paulakamen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We love our remote actors! HystericalFest, first comedy fest on invisible disability with a feminist POV, will be streaming 8-29 to 11-28. Tix here: paulakamen.eventbrite.com
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Paula Kamen @paulakamen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Proud to boost this provocative film with an interview in @chicagomag.com
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The inflatables have made it to Broadview.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/09/2025
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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Paula Kamen @paulakamen.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
And Jewish women’s loins have never been the same since #robertrredford His memory is a blessing. www.nydailynews.com/2023/01/20/b...
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Behind the scenes drama almost derailed Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford’s classic ‘The Way We Were’
It was a movie nobody liked making. The producer worried it cost too much, yet the director felt he was spending too little. The leading man called the script “a piece of junk,” and the…
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC
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Paula Kamen @paulakamen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Michiana in the fall is lovely this time of year! Come see a staged reading of Dionne’s House, about a libertine feminist philosopher obsessed with dieting, at Dunes Theatre Sept 20.
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Paula Kamen @paulakamen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Tell all your billionaire friends to save the @uptowntheatre.bsky.social!
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Paula Kamen @paulakamen.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Nice shout out to my tasteless short play in the @chicagoreader. Full story at https://chicagoreader.com/performing-arts/ghost-light/2025-dance-for-life-yippiefest-jeff-awards/
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Paula Kamen @paulakamen.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
One afternoon only! This Saturday at 3:30 @yippiefest.bsky.social in Chicago. A pilot for possible “Women Act Out” comedy fest on #invisible illness.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
One cool way to solve homelessness that isn’t an authoritarian take over of a city is to give everyone homes
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Paula Kamen @paulakamen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Enlightening thread
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Yellowhammer Fund @yellowfund.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Yellowhammer Fund won its lawsuit against Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall. The court made it clear: Alabama’s laws do not extend beyond state lines to penalize people for getting or assisting with legal healthcare elsewhere.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
harrowing. includes an account of a young man who sounds like he may be the person we profiled last night on MSNBC. time.com/7269604/el-s... www.advocate.com/news/gay-mak...
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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 22/02/2025
DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
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Paula Kamen @paulakamen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Tomorrow at Oakton College in Des Plaines, IL. I will be there after each performance to share my wisdom
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
BREAKING: We filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for its unlawful freeze on foreign assistance funds. The administration's illegal actions halted life-saving health programs around the globe and will cost thousands of American jobs.
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Paula Kamen @paulakamen.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Jane reading is sold out but online streaming is available for diehards for Monday, for the best counter programming in town
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Paula Kamen @paulakamen.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Reading tonight, panel tomorrow night. The second benefit reading of this play for an abortion fund where abortion has been severely restricted.
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