The “You Can Only Write Characters Who Are Exactly You” Idea Is Not Workable
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Let me start by admitting my biases: I’m a writer, and, like most writers, I’ve written things that didn’t go anywhere. The one that hurts most is my still-unpublished novel about a Black girl growing up in Stamps, Arkansas during the Great Depression. It’s a coming-of-age story about racism and sexual abuse, and was shunned by the literary world just b…
Which Census Box Will My Kids Check?
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The race and ethnicity statistics from the 2020 Census were released on Thursday. It’s hard to know what make of the data. The number of multi-racial people is skyrocketing, though if you: 1) Go outside, ever; and 2) Have functioning eyeballs, you already knew that. Tucker Carlson must have a mole in the AP, because they went with a
