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Your Body Is Not Wrong

By • Jun 1, 2018
  • Courtney Marshall leading Zumba at the YMCA
    Courtney Marshall leading Zumba at the YMCA
    Justine Paradis

What if the gym were a joyful place?

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  • Courtney Marshall had a plan: she would become an English professor and lead an academic life, studying race, gender, and social justice. But after she went to a Beyonce concert, she decided to bring those ideas into the gym instead. 
  • Only in New Hampshire: civics edition! What is an executive council, and why is New Hampshire the only state to still have a functioning one? Nick Capodice investigates.
  • NHPR's Annie Ropeik on a moment of change for the dams of the Connecticut River.
  • From Sean Hurley, existential dread and a meditation on the nature of the self. 
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