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Women, always the women. Thank goodness for the women.
Alexander Chee • The Best American Essays 2022
Poetry
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“For five dollars more I’ll do it.”
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.
Stephanie Stokes Oliver • Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
“Are they real?
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
When asked to write about who she might be without this creation story, as an ordinary little girl born into a grief-stricken family, she ran into a wall of fear. Finally, Toni was able to hypothetically describe this girl-self: “She’d be sad, I suppose. Probably confused. Scared that her mother might disappear, too. She might feel guilty that she
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From the very start, Jacaranda was the big one with the large head who, till she was three, had to be swathed in pink for people not to say, “My, what a nice healthy boy you’ve got there . . .” April was a girl, a girlish girl with curly brown curls and a rosy-cheeked smile, delicate bone structure, and a small head. Neither Jacaranda nor April
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