“Don’t you hate when editors use the ‘I don’t know enough writers of color’ excuse to back up the homogeneity of their publications?” Now you can add your info to a working list of writers of color.
“We live in a prose culture, a film culture, a media culture, but I think we should live in a poetry culture; and I want to steal everything back, from everywhere, and put it back in poetry; that is my ambition.” Watch or listen to Alice Notley in conversation with erica kaufman last week at the CUNY Graduate Center.
“But the worst part was that it put the squeeze on all of us who were caught in the middle: women of color and trans folks, lefties, feminists, and radicals who had very deep reservations about call-out culture, purity politics, and the veneration of rage in activist circles.” – Katherine Cross writes about call-out culture and “tone policing” in online activism for Feministing.
“As a perpetual outsider, in virtue of my brown immigrant body, my accent, mannerisms, and the assumptions about my affinities and motivations, I have encountered what are termed as microaggressions both within the classroom and in context of presenting my research.” – Professor Saba Fatima on being a woman of color in academia. Continue reading
