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If You Don’t Know Me by Now…

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E. Ethelbert Miller
When the term “Black Lives Matter” found its Marco Polo moment, everyone was struck by the discovery of the spice of blackness.
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What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Identity

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Eileen Cronin
Right now, a good portion of 57 million Americans may be deciding whether to earn a living or stay alive at home, if they have a home, but what do we know about life with a disability in America?

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Imagining Your Way through Pandemic: A Love Letter for Students of Creative Writing in Times of Crisis

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Emily Carr
Let’s tell it together: with grace and vulnerability, with discipline and generosity, with an urgency that isn’t—finally—allowed the pettiness of our species.

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Writing in a Time of Disaster

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Debra Spark
Trouble, as we all know, forces a reordering of priorities, in a rather unhappy way. So long, petty concerns!

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What The Plague Can Teach Us About Ourselves

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Michael C. White
As for those citizens in Camus’s world, America is not a friendly place to be sick even in good times; during a plague, it’s a disaster.

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