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Laurel Brett

The Last Days of Chez Nous: On Losing the Places Where We Belong

The title of an Australian film from 1991, Last Days of Chez Nous, has always haunted me, long after any memories of the film itself faded…

6 min readOct 30, 2020

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The Last Days of Chez Nous: On Losing the Places Where We Belong

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Laurel Brett

The Democratic Dream of the White Daddy and the Dream Suitor

It just happened. I got called a bigot by two angry Facebook posters on a friend’s thread. My comment? That I don’t support Joe Biden for…

4 min readMar 23, 2019

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Laurel Brett

John McCain’s Funeral Was Not a Resistance Party

Okay. I’m going to write this. I really don’t want to. It’s Labor Day. I start my college teaching again tomorrow, and I just want my last…

6 min readSep 4, 2018

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Laurel Brett

Mean Boys

Tina Fey nailed the cult of girl cruelty in her iconic film, Mean Girls. But what about mean boys? These were the guys who terrorized us on…

3 min readJun 18, 2018

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Laurel Brett

Trump Won Because We Wanted Him To

I should clarify what I mean by we. I mean the United States as a society. I know we have micro-societies, and it’s hard to speak of a…

5 min readJun 18, 2018

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It’s a Travesty: Travesties and the Tony

When I was first introduced to Tom Stoppard’s brand of puckish wisdom with Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead my ears pricked up like a…

3 min readMay 19, 2018

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Laurel Brett

Bitter: #metoo Goes to Academia

Among the five basic tastes, sweet, sour, savory, salty, and bitter, we are most sensitive to bitterness, probably because bitter foods are…

5 min readMay 19, 2018

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Laurel Brett

Smashing Knowledge: Kristallnacht in America

I have been teaching the great classical epics in my community college mythology class, as I have for roughly thirty semesters. For years I…

6 min readDec 6, 2017

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Laurel Brett

Women Warriors

(With thanks to Maxine Hong Kingston)

4 min readNov 18, 2017

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Dear George Clooney, Shut Up

Dear George Clooney, you may look cute in a tuxedo, but when you open your mouth, you lose me. And those who compare you to Cary Grant…

5 min readSep 26, 2017

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Laurel Brett

Laurel Brett

Laurel Brett, PhD. teaches English, Women’s Studies, and Mythology. She is the author The Schrödinger Girl, and Disquiet on the Western Front.

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