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Colorless People: “Know Better, Do Better”

Catherine Vandermal·
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·August 7, 2024·2 min read
Can a colorless person have any sense of what it feels like to be prejudged against, before “the you -  inside yourself” opens your eyes in the morning?
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Have You Ever Crossed the Desert in a Circus Train?

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"Have you ever crossed the desert in a circus train? I took such a detour—by choice— in 1978 when I hung up my pointe shoes to ride an elephant named Peggy."
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Autoethnographic Poetry: “Tired”

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“Tired,” the titular poem and the collection at large, is an autoethnography looking at the cause of so much pain, so much fatigue. Anthropomorphizing the feeling of being tired gave me creative license to dramatize and explore the real experiences of needing a break...
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