zhiviToday’s #TopicOfConversation. Please share 1 way you are fighting racism/prejudices in your life. mine is in the reply. Are you reading, having conversation, workshops, etc? Maybe other will do what you are doing. #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFediverse #BlackFedi
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Maia KB Chowdhury@zhivi I decided to stop fighting and to start advocating. It is a better use of my energy. I also wanted to write about race in a personal way to me because I feel more power in that starting place. So, when I write ecofiction, I also write race. From my POV. But, can every character realistically be half Asian and half European in a novel? That gets boring. So I branched out to include ethnicities I’ve been mistaken for, and have had that conversation on the page. And then branched out further to look at architectural and community impacts of development on race and minorities, since I’m an architect. Using what I know as a springboard and questioning what I think I know. Keeping it intersectional.