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Finding Home Through Literature: A Study of Filipino Fiction
All my life, I felt ashamed because I was born in America. Growing up in Los Angeles, CA, in the nineties, an American, to me,...
Report from the Field: To Lift Off My Veil
When I began considering Anne Sexton, the American poet who could not bear the sexism of the mid-20th century Western world, and read in her...
The Count in the Ivory Tower: Gender Parity in MFA Programs
A graduate PhD student and a tenured professor walk into a coffee shop—sounds like the beginning of a hackneyed joke. Instead, it’s the catalyst for...
Report From the Field: White People Love Me: Dispatches From The Token
I get along with white people really well. Growing up, they brought peppermint bark down the cul-de-sac to my parents’ house every Christmas. They smiled...