Intersectional weight penalties — 2015 VIDA count
Yesterday, VIDA published their 2015 count. This year, the count goes intersectional. I am dismayed at how few women writers are succeeding with more than one bias operating against us.
Read moreYesterday, VIDA published their 2015 count. This year, the count goes intersectional. I am dismayed at how few women writers are succeeding with more than one bias operating against us.
Read moreIs there such a thing as an “essential self”? If so, can it be warped, encouraged, or destroyed? How far outside the moral and physical boundaries of that essential self would I we be willing to step in order to stay alive? And—if we stepped so far out that we became someone we did not recognise or like—would we still be us? I wrote Slow River to answer those questions.
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