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The premier college devoted to women’s intellectual leadership, with all the resources of @Columbia and New York City. Led by President @preslrosenbury.
New York City barnard.edu Joined April 2009
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Barnard College mourns the loss of Barbara Gordon ’57, a remarkable alumna whose 1979 memoir “I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can” transformed public understanding of prescription drug abuse.

More on Gordon’s life and career in @nytimes:
nytimes.com/2026/04/15/boo…
www.nytimes.com Barbara Gordon, 90, Dies; Wrote a Best Seller About Her Pill Addiction Her 1979 memoir, “I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can,” which also became a movie, detailed years of prescription drug abuse and offered an indictment of American psychiatry.