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Christine de Pisan

@writehere.bsky.social
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Geographer, author, and editor. Polyglot and feminist. Artist, lover of nature, cats, and science. Don't tell me what to do, and we'll get along just fine.

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Christine de Pisan @writehere.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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Christine de Pisan @writehere.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
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Christine de Pisan @writehere.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
A small, precious thing from almost 100 years ago is this wallet-sized card of mounted dried flowers from Palestine given to my great-grandmother Effie Laster by a friend of hers. She lived her life in Jefferson County, Kansas, spending most of it in Billtown (officially, Williamstown).
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Christine de Pisan @writehere.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Luna B's a big half Maine Coon, but he appears small when playing while I make the bed.
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Christine de Pisan @writehere.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Thank you, but that's a pseudonym. Christine de Pisan (or Pizan) was a 14th-century Venetian feminist historian and poet fed up with the misogyny of her time who envisioned a City of Women where women could flourish without the constraints imposed by men.
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Christine de Pisan @writehere.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Ghislaine Maxwell's first name is spelled three ways in her immigration and passport documents. On her passport it appears as Chislaine. I've never heard of such discrepancies before.
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Christine de Pisan @writehere.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Erwin Chemerinsky, who served on one of the late '90s CRCs, is providing a very interesting, broad overview of that late '90s process and the challenges of having an elected and an appointed CRC.
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Christine de Pisan @writehere.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Raphe Sonenshein is speaking to the CRC meeting about the history of the 1997--1999 charter reform.
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Christine de Pisan @writehere.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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Christine de Pisan @writehere.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
In this polycentric, polyglot, multiethnic, hypercreative beautiful mess of a city where folks know what's what and have been largely protesting peaceably, people rise up to support the most vulnerable,...
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