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“Together, We Can Create the World We Want to See”: An Interview with ChatGPT

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Recently, an editor at Hard Crackers discovered that many students in his classes were having their homework assignments written for them by an artificial intelligence (AI) program called ChatGPT, a piece of software that draws on ...

A Saturday Afternoon in Brooklyn

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The Hard Crackers Release Party for Issue #9 on Saturday, January 7th, went off with a bang, not of the NYPD variety. Between 20 and 30 people were in attendance.  The Freddy’s Bar Backroom was filled. John ...

Hard Crackers Magazine Issue #9 Release Event

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Where:         Freddy’s Bar (the Backroom)                         627 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY                         (Between 17th & 18th Street)   When:           Saturday Afternoon, January 7, 2023                         2 – ...

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Reproductive Freedom Series (Free Downloadable PDF)

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A short while ago, Hard Crackers sent an invitation to people who we knew had been active in various reproductive freedom projects over the last fifty years to help us think through the issues and challenges ...

Announcing the Release of Hard Crackers Issue #9

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Hard Crackers Magazine Issue #9 is now available. To order copies, please go to the Store section on our website. If you are reading this, you are already on that website. The price is $8 per ...

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“The Monster is Actually the Police”: A Discussion with Travis Linnemann

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We sat down with Travis Linnemann, a professor of sociology at Kansas State University and a distinguished cultural critic, to discuss his provocative research into the supposed meth epidemic and the ongoing humanitarian disaster of policing ...

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Demand What You Really Want! An Interview with Jenny Brown

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Jenny Brown is an organizer with the feminist group National Women’s Liberation. She was a leader in the grassroots campaign to make morning-after pill contraception available over the counter in the U.S. and was a plaintiff in the ...

We Were Keeping the Clinic Doors Open With Our Bodies: Interview with Sunny Chapman

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Sunny Chapman is a longtime activist and artist. In the 1980s and 1990s she participated in abortion clinic defense struggles by escorting women to clinics and videotaping the activities of anti-abortion activists. In this interview, she ...

Redstockings Abortion Speak Out

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This is the fourth post in the Hard Crackers Reproductive Freedom Series.  The post is an edited transcript of remarks made by women who spoke at the first Abortion Speak Out on March 21, 1969 in ...

Who Are the Experts? An archival glimpse at 1969 abortion rights actions

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This is the second posting in Reproductive Freedom: A Series, launched earlier this week by Hard Crackers. In this post, we share a collection of historical materials from the Redstockings Archives for Action. Redstockings was an ...