For goodness sake, can you pause a moment in your compassion about white women having bills to pay..

Ostensibly, it should be possible to believe in two self-evident truths at once — that historically underrepresented writers deserve the opportunity to be published, and that membership in a given identity category does not mitigate the need to earn a living. Most writers, even the whitest and most heterosexual among us, have bills to pay. But the quest to i…
White Women Need Not Apply
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Aza Y. Alam
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Jan 21, 2023
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For goodness sake, can you pause a moment in your compassion about white women having bills to pay... and think about the centuries that enslaved women/women of colour were labouring fucking 16 hour days, so white women could have their creature comforts,,, and we were also excluded and denied access to basic literacy and schooling, never mind publishing opportunities?
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Exploring the entanglements of gender, race and class during this era of the Eurokleptocene. Let’s do better, one story, one learning, one comment at a time.
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