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I'm really sorry to hear this. I had several conversations with Joan at TOC-Vancouver. She was a sweet, sweet lady with a mine of fascinating anecdotes from her activist days. Thanks for posting the news, Ed.

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Feminists for Free Expression, of which Joan Kennedy Taylor was a long-term activist and board member, is a key organization fighting theocratic and gender-feminist efforts to criminalize pornography and "obscenity." She will be missed.


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Presuasion was the only magazine Ayn Rand endorsed in the Objectivist Newsletter.  Joan and her late husband David Dawson did much of the writing for it.  The magazine always maintained a very high quality.  I hope someone will look at republishing Joan and David's articles.

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Here is Charles Murray's Joan Kennedy Taylor: An Appreciation published at ReasonOnLine.
I do not know what specific aspects of Objectivism she retained and which she modified in her own beliefs, but she lived the essence of Rand's concept of happiness as the moral purpose of life, productive achievement as life's noblest activity, and reason as her absolute.


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