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The Maintenance Read

Brenda Nguyen

Essays on the relationships we don't have language for

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  • Brenda Nguyen

    I research workplace relationships at the University of Lethbridge. I'm writing a book about the relationships we don't have language for. This newsletter is the wider territory the book lives in. No advice. Just patterns.

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