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The art of the away message

A break and some housekeeping

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Amanda Montei
Jun 20, 2024
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I have been tinkering lately with my email away message, trying to find the language to say, simply, that I am taking a break. That I need to untether from my inbox this summer. That I don’t want to be remembered for my swift email responses. Some mothers have taken up the vacation responder as a political act— a way of noting, for example, the lacuna o…

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