Eleanor Roosevelt ' s and Lorena Hickok ' s hidden communication exposes much more than same sex-female intimacy . Their letters underscore the private needs of public figures , the role that society continues to play in policing relationships and determining validity , and the history that remains beneath the history books . Hidden communication does the thankless job of working as an ongoing catalyst in determining the course of societies . There are many more ( un ) written lives and communications buried beneath , around , through , and above our cities . Viewing hidden communication as its own genre and mapping medium shapes a fuller view of history and geography — both in the past and as it unfolds . . . within a now ( un ) written and digitized future .
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