The Cost of Survival
A review of 500 years in 4000 -odd words I’ve started and stopped a post about the protests multiple times now. There’s just so much involved, and such a long history; so many references to make and parallels to draw….
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Tag Archive: racism
Of Romance and Recklessness
RWA is imploding. Here’s some info on the mess.
Arguments Not To Use With Me
On FB, Twitter, and personal conversations of late, I’ve been seeing the same tacks develop in conversation after conversation. I can predict the curve of the conversation and whether I’ll have to block/cut off the person in question within their…
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Race in The Children of the Desert books
One of my self-challenges in recent years has been to update my writing to match my growing awareness of racism. I routinely pull up old, unpublished work for an overhaul and cringe at the assumptions I didn’t even know I…
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The Depths of Human Stubbornness
I’m going to talk about racism today. I promise, it’s relevant to the title. And to writing, even. It’s easy (for some of us) to turn racism into an abstract discussion. To forget that there are real people being affected….
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