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Open Letters to People or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond

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August 26, 2019

An Open Letter to My School District’s Second Grade Teachers Regarding Their School Supplies List

by Pamela Manasco
August 22, 2019

An Open Letter to the Man Who Yelled “Go Back to Africa” At Me

by JD Dillard
June 20, 2019

An Open Letter to Parents Being Harangued to Remember Yet Another Username and Password by Signing Up for the Library Summer Reading Program

by Hayley DeRoche
May 30, 2019

An Open Letter to Everyone Sharing Their Wisdom About How to Cure My Depression

by Jen Freymond
March 15, 2019

An Open Letter to My Family Announcing My Resignation from Motherhood

by Nicole Slaughter Graham
March 7, 2019

An Open Break-Up Letter to Estrogen

by Courtney Helgoe
February 26, 2019

An Open Letter to People Who Call Me “Sir”

by Nikki Palumbo
January 15, 2019

An Open Letter to the Mathematical Community

by Daniel J. Woodhouse
December 11, 2018

An Open Letter to Gift-Givers of Noise-Making Toys

by Colleen Rothman
August 7, 2018

An Open Letter to the Owner of the Car With the “LOUDER THAN YOUR MOM WAS LAST NIGHT” License Plate Frame Parked at the Portland International Airport

by Mo Daviau
June 14, 2018

An Open Letter to My Dad, Post-Cremation, Concerning His Missing Gold Teeth

by Annie Sheppard
June 6, 2018

An Open Letter to White Women Concerning The Handmaid’s Tale and America’s Cultural Amnesia

by Tiffany Midge

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September 11, 2024

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by Maura Quint
August 19, 2024

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by Ben Parker, Stephanie Steinbrecher, Kelsey Ronan, John McMurtrie, Sophia DuRose, Rachel Villa, and Amy Sumerton
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by Andrew Paul
September 13, 2024

A First-Year Teacher Learns to Use Adhesives from Her Mentor

by Kerry Elson