An Impossible Grief

Reckoning with a beloved teacher’s complicated legacy

Amy Susanne Robinson
Gay Mag
Published in
15 min readMar 30, 2020

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Illustration by Carmen Johns

TTruth: This essay is supposed to be about an impossible grief.
Truth: This essay is supposed to be about power.
Lie: This essay is about what it’s supposed to be about.

We’ve all heard famous women defend famous men who have been accused of abuse, of rape, of…

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Amy Susanne Robinson
Gay Mag

Essayist, poet, writing teacher. Mom. Very good cook. Web: StudioFriend.co. Twitter/IG: @amysmcd