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Nov 6, 2022 · A recent documentary, Across and Down, dove into this and found that women, Indigenous, Black and queer-identifying people have been almost invisible in crossword puzzles.
- A New Perspective on Inclusivity
- Demanding Change in The 'Crossworld'
- Rethinking My Own Life's 'Grid'
My first real encounter with exclusion came after my partner was diagnosed with ALS and his disability began to change the way the world saw him. The experience of watching him being treated differently, simply because he no longer looked and communicated in ways that society has incorrectly judged as beautiful and competent, rippled through my lif...
About a decade ago, I was field producing a five-minute story in Lunenburg, N.S., on cruciverbalist Walter Feener. The name of his vocation is as intriguing as the vocation itself. A cruciverbalist is a person who has a deep affection and skill for solving and/or constructing crossword puzzles — and Walter was a whiz at building them. When I saw ho...
Every single crossword puzzle constructor I had the pleasure of speaking with for Across & Downgenerously accepted me into the "crossworld." "The crossworld is a weird, twisted niche community, a collection of intellectual misfits who get off on wordplay," expert constructor Ross Trudeau told me. "[It] comprises people who make puzzles, people who ...
Apr 4, 2024 · Anna Shechtman’s The Riddles of the Sphinx is, so I am told, a memoir of recovery from anorexia and a group biography of the women who developed crossword puzzles. But this is a book that transcends its essential categories: it’s not just a memoir because it allows the reader to move between the individual and the collective in a quest to reoccupy forms.
- Hannah Zeavin
Mar 5, 2024 · In “The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting a Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle,” Shechtman combines a history of the crossword highlighting its early women innovators with her memoir of a personal challenge. As a teenager, puzzle construction was intertwined with her anorexia and was also key to her recovery.
May 29, 2014 · Tracy Bennett, a New York Times crossword constructor and editor of the puzzles in the women’s magazine BUST, echoed Reynaldo’s thoughts when describing her own balance of work, childcare, and constructing. She spoke candidly about the jealousy she once felt for constructors with fewer professional or personal responsibilities and more time to hone their craft.
But despite the widespread appeal of the crossword, women, people of colour and LGBTQ2SIA+ individuals have been almost invisible when it comes to puzzle bylines, clues and solutions. Not only ...
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Mar 18, 2020 · Agard, who once wore a PUBLISH MORE WOMEN shirt to a crossword-puzzle tournament, thinks Shortz and other legacy editors “could snap [their] infinity gauntlets like Thanos, and 50 percent of ...
