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Contextualizing Why Women in Typography and Letter Design were Forgotten: A Review of Baseline Shift, Edited by Briar Levit

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  I took my kids to Disney world for the first time in February. I don’t like amusement parks in general. I’m a tea-and-used-bookstore kind of woman; rollercoasters are loud and lack the smell of binding glue. How did we get to Disney if I dislike amusement parks so much? Well, when my children had been sent home from school in April of 2020 and we had to tell them that scouts, sports, and leaving the house were on hold for a while, within their tears was a question about an upcoming birthday party. When I told them that was canceled too, my three boys seized that moment. It was a real low. But my kids, always trying to get the upper hand asked, “When this is over, will you take us to Disney?” Sigh. Of course I would. Photo by  Nathan Langer  on  Unsplash ; Spaceship Earth takes you into the Epcot Ball, where you travel to space and inaccurate history That is how I found myself riding some of the most infuriating rides. I’m not talking about Space Mountain- that was problematic for its