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Christina Crosby

Middletown, Connecticut

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Crosby, ChristinaChristina Crosby, Feminist and Disability Studies Scholar and Writer, Dies at 67Christina Crosby, Professor of English and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University, died on January 5, 2021 of pancreatic cancer in Middlesex Hospital. A deeply beloved teacher...

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I just yesterday finished A Body, Undone, and went online to look for Christina's contact info only to find that she had died. I wanted to email her to let her know how moved I was by her book, and how much I feel a witness to her vitality, fierce honesty about all manner of things - hard and easy - and human vulnerability. I send deepest condolences to her family and friends and students for the loss of this beautiful soul.

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The loss, so soon, of the wonderful mind and being of Christina Crosby is a terrible loss for all who valued her influence and friendship.

I met Tina when she was 18. She was a brilliant high school student in a literature class that I was in at Juniata College. We became fast friends. I practically lived at her parents’ home on Mifflin Street in Huntingdon, PA! Tina’s mother, Jane, was like my 2nd mother, and I learned to bake—really bake—from her. I bought my first car, a VW...

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To my dear cousin Such wonderful memories of family times together. Missing you but know you are at peace and pain free. So glad you are now with your dear brother Jeff. Love all around to your family and to all who loved you. Barb and JD