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by Priya Hein

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Jan 31, 2026 01:30PM

“Children do absolutely nothing on their arrival that warrants presents every year. If anything, they should give presents to their mothers, who come close to death.”
― Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water

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“The anti-racist model confirms craft as an abstract concept; participants collectively define the workshop vocabulary.”
― Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom

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“What is harmful is workshop leaders' collective hallucination of white universality that situates people of color as abnormal.”
― Felicia Rose Chavez

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“But the memory lingered, the lesson I have never quite been able to shake: that I would always have something to prove and that nothing but blazing brilliance would be enough to prove it.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

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“Whiteness isn’t antithetical to non-whiteness, it’s contingent on it. Creative writing is ethnic studies, is gender and sexual studies, is political science, is religion, is history, is sociology. The dichotomy is a sham. All art is political art. Everything less is denial, denial being the most political of all.”
― Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom

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