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Insight, humor, a little bit of asskicking, and a Reason Not To Quit every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from writer, editor, and not-quitter Hanne Blank Boyd.
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The foul-mouthed little housekeeping book with a cult following, It Ain’t Gonna Lick Itself: Housekeeping In Spite Of It All, serializing weekly
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About Dr. Hanne Blank Boyd
Dr. Hanne Blank Boyd is the author of a number of books including Fat (2020, Bloomsbury), Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality (2014, Beacon Press), Virgin: The Untouched History (2007, Bloomsbury), It Ain’t Gonna Lick Itself: Housekeeping In Spite of It All (2024, serialized here), and numerous others. Her books have been translated into several languages, including Japanese and Turkish.
Hanne is a writer and editor providing a comprehensive suite of literary services including developmental editing and ghostwriting.
On Substack, Hanne writes Reasons Not to Quit, a newsletter that’s exactly what it says on the tin plus some insight, humor, and a little bit of asskicking. Reasons Not to Quit began on Twitter in November 2016 as a daily dose of motivation and audacity, and ran for 5 years before taking a hiatus. It relaunched into a new incarnation on Substack in May 2024.
A historian, bioethicist, and opera singer by training, Dr. Blank Boyd holds degrees from Emory University, Indiana University, and the New England Conservatory of Music. Formerly on faculty at Denison University, she has been a lecturer and visiting speaker at institutions including Harvard University, Brandeis University, Emory University School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Alabama, and many others.
Hanne Blank Boyd lives with her family in a small town tucked into the salt marshes and historical pirate coves of the Cape Fear river delta, a few miles from a barrier island where she can regularly be found walking the dogs.
AI Policy
AI is a tool, and like any tool, it can be used well or poorly, ethically or unethically. At this point in the development of AI, there are many profound ethical problems with its creation and deployment. For that reason, I do not use AI or Generative AI (GAI) in my work, including the creation of this Substack, at this time.
Digital information sources such as online dictionaries, library catalogs, and article/journal collections may be used in research, but any content taken directly from any outside source will be clearly identified according to guidelines established in the Chicago Manual of Style.
Images are either created by the author or are selected from credited sources that are identified as coming from a human creator.
If you’d like to know more about the ethical and practical problems AI poses at this stage in its development, this MIT project provides a great deal of insight.
