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Part of Our World: On the Mermaids of Walt Disney, Hans Christian Andersen, and W.B. Yeats

Gabrielle Bellot: “The mermaid is the Other; she is also us.”

 
By Gabrielle Bellot  May 31, 2023
Games

How Board Game Geek Helped Make Board Games More Inclusive

By Aaron Trammell  April 20, 2023
Keen On

Kimberlee Yolanda Williams on What It’s Like to Rock the White Woman’s Cradle

By Keen On  April 19, 2023
On Poetry

Charif Shanahan on Making the Unseen Seen through Poetry

By Literary Hub  April 10, 2023
Inequality

How Stress Creeps Through Social Inequity to Shorten Lives

By Arline T. Geronimus  March 31, 2023
On Race

The Ethics of Writing About Race as a White Woman

By Rachel Jamison Webster  March 21, 2023
What to Watch

Skeletons in the Closet: On Mad Men and White America’s Willful Amnesia

By Kelly Shetron  March 15, 2023
Publishing

Laura Warrell on Publishing While Black

By Laura Warrell  February 6, 2023
Colonialism

How Writing Against Empire Helps Heal Its Enduring Wounds

By Tsitsi Dangarembga  January 18, 2023
Write-minded

David Yoon on Writing Racial Dynamics in YA Fiction

By Write-minded   November 14, 2022
Immigration

How Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe Were Introduced to Whiteness

By Emily Tamkin  November 3, 2022
On Race

Confronting the South’s Tradition of Racist Terror

By Ousmane Power-Green  November 3, 2022
Politics

How President Obama Marked 50 Years of Civil Rights Struggle With One of His Most Memorable Speeches

By Cody Keenan  October 17, 2022
On Race

Kiki Petrosino on Race and Where “Brightness” Begins

By Kiki Petrosino  August 10, 2022
On Whiteness

Writing a Book About My Whiteness Forced Me to Confront My Own Lies

By Baynard Woods  July 20, 2022
Correspondence

Why Solidarity is Not a Finite Resource

By Robyn Maynard  June 30, 2022
First Draft

Lawrence Jackson on the Distinction Between Home and Shelter

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 21, 2022
Feminism

The Foundations of Black Feminism and Womanism: A Reading List

By Negesti Kaudo  April 29, 2022
On Race

The Whiplash of Growing Up Between Two Worlds

By Anais Granofsky  April 25, 2022
On Racism

How the Book Industry Turns Its Own Racism into a Marketable Product

By Tajja Isen  April 20, 2022
On Race

How Buffy the Vampire Slayer Mishandled Characters of Color

By Evan Katz  March 17, 2022
Jane Austen

Just How Much is Jane Austen a Precursor to Bridgerton?

By Robert Morrison  March 17, 2022
Race

What Does it Look Like to Decenter Whiteness in Fiction?

By Kasim Ali  March 10, 2022
The Maris Review

Sarah Manguso on the Coldness and Quietness of New England Girlhood

By The Maris Review  March 3, 2022
On Race

How Stories Emerge from Afro-Diasporic Collective Memory

By Destiny O. Birdsong  February 11, 2022
Activism

The Case Against Civility in Politics

By Alex Zamalin  February 7, 2022
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