Generosity as a Social Justice Reading Practice
There are a number of practices and resources that can encourage the practice of reading generously or introduce one to new writers.
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The Complicated and Contradictory Mosaic of Cure: An Interview with Eli Clare
Clare’s writing is radical in its refusal to condense to a prescriptive right or wrong without ever sliding into passivity. His book, The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion, was a 2008 Lambda Literary Award finalist. His 1999 essay collection, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, was reissued by Duke University Press in 2015.
Writers Descend on Washington, Promptly Resist
The literary community descended on Washington, DC last week for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs’ annual conference, and participants seized the opportunity to register their dissent with the current administration.
Round-Down: The Black and White Business of Confronting Racism in Literature
Like most Americans, I’ve been stunned the last few months by the verdicts in Ferguson and New York. Tens of thousands of protestors, black, white and brown, have taken to the streets and to social media to voice their protest and outrage at the implicit message received from these verdicts that black lives don’t matter—but…