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What We’re Reading: October 29, 2018

October 29, 2018 by Claudia Paoletto

Aging can be hard for those in the trans community | Washington Post Jess T. Dugan, a photographer, and Vanessa Fabbre, a social worker and assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis, discovered their work had more in common than they realized. Dugan’s work focused on identity, gender and sexuality, specifically within the transgender [...]

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What We’re Reading, July 16, 2018

July 16, 2018 by Claudia Paoletto

When you’re aging alone, who will take care of you if you get sick? | The Washington Post Not long before I turned 60, my husband and I split up, and a health concern that I’d never really worried about jumped out at me: What would I do, now alone, if I became seriously ill? [...]

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