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#22: let's vote!

#22: let's vote!

Pick this month's prompt and next month's historical mail

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Nikita Andester
Nov 22, 2023
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#22: let's vote!
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It’s that time, you heard it here first - VOTE CITY, population: you, me, and my Patreon.

In case you missed it, Snail Mail Sweethearts is in the midst of a dope restructuring. I’ll be focusing this newsletter exclusively on historical mail and microfiction. Now, each monthly fiction will link - in some bizarre fashion - directly to our month’s historical mail.

Last week I wrote about Lady Compton’s famous “also” letter and Olivia Colman’s incredible rendition of it. If you missed that one, you can catch it here:

#21: The demands of Lady Elizabeth Compton

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November 17, 2023
#21: The demands of Lady Elizabeth Compton

The past few years, our cultural conversation has finally begun. to shift. There’s less of an expectation that women to play by the rules of men in order to be taken seriously. Women and femme bbs are pretty much over the fiction we’ve been fed: that to be intellectual, to be worthy of rights, to deserve to be taken seriously, you’d better not be caught…

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Lucky for all of you, restructuring means you get to vote on the historical mail we’ll explore each month, too.

In addition to voting on an action and a word for the microfiction, paid subscribers this month are choosing which historical mail we’ll explore next, including…

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