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Articles by
Mary Ann Barfield
Mary Ann Barfield is an Atlanta writer and critic who would prefer it if you started thinking of her as the poor man’s Ricki Lake. Until now, she has exclusively published with academic presses.
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July 6, 2021I Am Poseidon, God of the Sea, Reminding You That Every Body Is a Beach Body (But Specifically Virgins Undefiled by the Lusts of Mortal Men)
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March 12, 2021Five Ways I’m Learning to Love My Body Again While Being Publicly Shamed for Adultery in Puritan New England
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March 2, 2021A Graduate School Rejection Letter As Written by My Anxiety Disorder at 3 AM
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March 24, 2025Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
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March 18, 2025Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy
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March 26, 2025Excerpts from a Red-Hot Right-Wing Romance Novel
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March 25, 2025The Plan to Bomb the Middle East Finally Made It Out of the Group Chat
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March 31, 2025I’m a Free-Thinking Centrist with Only Right-Wing Ideas
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March 31, 2025Son, I Forbid You to Join That Rowdy, No-Good Zorba the Greek Fan Club
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March 28, 2025Although I Voted for You to Be Turned into Soup, There’s No Reason We Can’t Be Friends Before You Are Liquefied
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March 28, 2025Brutally Honest Emails from Academia.edu