…Even though we talk about race a lot in the literature, there’s still this idea of Well, if we make this person blue and give them pointy ears, then we don’t have to actually talk about what’s happening in the real world. And those of us who live in racialized bodies feel that lack, we feel that erasure, so yes, there was something quite deliberate in my doing half the speech as an alien.
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Nalo Hopkinson was a contemporary Canadian canadian writer. Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor. Her novels – Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Midnight Robber (2000), The Salt Roads (2003), The New Moon's Arms (2007) – and short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk (2001) often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling. Read more on Wikipedia →