Little Noteworthies
SELF AWARENESS?
I found this elephant — Hong — on G.I.’s blog, “Love Settlement“.
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They just wanted to be like everyone else, and unfortunately they were: normal guys who happened to have sex with other normal guys. For me, to be gay was an elective affinity, a chosen destiny. For most of them, it was just something you did in the dark, in a nightclub or a bedroom, and then you put on a suit and went to the office, where you did important things.
–Reginald Shepherd, Coloring Outside the Lines: An Essay at Definition
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–Tim Wise, This Is Your Nation On White Privilege
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Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Award. Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She co-edited with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She also co-edits the anthology series, Bettering American Poetry, and is a professor of creative writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.
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