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I haven’t felt this disoriented since dropping acid with Timothy Leary back in 1968 — but that was disorientation in the service of consciousness-raising — this felt more like the time I was stomped on by riot police during a protest rally.

In 1970s New York, as painting and sculpture gave way to a gold rush of conceptualism, environments, performance and politics, the Ohio-born Dennis, fresh from art school in Minnesota and Paris, tuned into consciousness-raising women’s groups and devoted her craft to unsettlingly frank resemblances of buildings.

In the most ironic of setbacks for a consciousness-raising pop star, Bono’s shot vocal cords left him unable to sing through much of the band’s set list.

It was very exciting to be there, and the series as it evolved through the difficult year of 1968 and into 1969 fit into my life; it was in its way educational and consciousness-raising.

Former Jezebel staffer Kate Dries, who penned the publication’s obituary earlier this month for the Los Angeles Times, likened the site to “consciousness-raising circles” that took root in second-wave feminist movements of the 1960s and ’70s.