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Chloe Shaw

Chloe Shaw lives in Connecticut with her husband, two kids, two cats, and two dogs. She writes fiction and nonfiction.

Spring, 1988

Time does nothing to lessen the pain of sexual assault

by Chloe Shaw | Wednesday, September 26, 2018

What Is a Dog?

Friendship, faith, and love, for starters—yet our relationships with our canine companions contain many more unfathomable mysteries

by Chloe Shaw | Monday, March 05, 2018

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Reflecting on gun violence from the Happiest Place on Earth

by Chloe Shaw | Tuesday, April 03, 2018

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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

School Survival

by Anne P. Beatty

As L.A. teachers prepare to go on strike, we’re revisiting an essay by Anne P. Beatty about her time teaching high school in South Central Los Angeles, where her homeroom class often paused for a moment of silence to mourn students who had died in drive-by shootings. Her students knew that this was not the case in wealthier school districts. “They knew that somewhere there were schools with computers that worked, just as they knew that somewhere it was safe to walk through the streets at night,” Beatty writes. “They knew it wasn’t normal for 16-year-olds to die.” But what she found shocking, her students had to learn to endure. “Apathy was involved in giving in to the violence, and there was despair over the prospect of a better future.”