Shenaz Patel is a Mauritian writer and a 2016 resident of the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa.
As islanders, we know how attentive we have to be to signs when a cyclone approaches.
Will I dare say it aloud? But then, everything about “politically correct” seems thrown to the dogs these days. And perhaps the core of the problem is we’ve had an overdose of political correctness, which has drugged the capacity to see, and hear, and feel. Continue reading
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Adriana Ramirez, Mexican-Colombian nonfiction writer, storyteller, performance poet.
The strongest feeling I had on November 9th was indifference. Continue reading
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Bina Shah, columnist for the New York Times and SampsoniaWay.org
Coming to middle America as a woman who had spent eleven years on the East Coast of America but also fifteen years living in Pakistan, the divides were more obvious to me than if I’d spent all my life living in, say, New York City. Continue reading
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In Mexico we feel hurt and shocked to see that so many people in the United States, including Latinos and women, voted for Donald Trump. I am also deeply concerned to see, throughout the world, a growing tendency in politics for propaganda to replace truth.
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