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Douchebag Decree: Bad Mothering Lawsuit

Douchebag Decree post by Nicole Morales on September 1, 2011 - 11:58am; tagged bad mothering lawsuit, Chicago, Kimberly Garrity, Miner children, mothering, Steven A. Miner.

"ye olde douchebag decree" in blue letters with a light blue hand-drawn douchebag in the background, and "BITCH HEREBY DECLARES THE FOLLOWING PERSON A TOTAL DOUCHEBAG" in small letters in red underneath.

In 2009, two adult children filed a lawsuit to sue their mother, Kimberly Garrity, for more than $50,000 in "emotional distress" damages. At the time, twentysomething Steven II and eighteensomething Kathryn alleged their mother failed to do her motherly duties thereby accusing Kimberly Garrrity of bad mothering. All rise for Judge Decree...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetic License

History post by Sara Stroo on February 15, 2010 - 3:25pm; tagged Adventures in Feministory, Annie Allen, Chicago, Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize.

 Today’s Adventures in Feministory features Gwendolyn Brooks, a Chicagoan, prolific poetess,
and the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize for her 1949 collection, Annie Allen.

"Poetry is Life Distilled."
-Gwendolyn Brooks
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