nonfiction
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The same friend who recommended El Deafo in response to my concerns about accurately and sensitively writing a Deaf character also told me about Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare. In this case, the purpose of the recommendation was two-fold. On one hand, it was in response to my desire to…
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I first read Braiding Sweetgrass as part of the assigned reading in my Creative Writing MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, though I had heard about the book and been wanting to read it for some time before that. Still, I didn’t expect to encounter it in a Fiction course – the book is…
