It's wild to me that I feel like this accurately describes my attitude toward the setting of my stories, even though I haven't articulated it to nearly this degree before.
Anything drawn from the real world is a borrowed fragment of someone's life, and should be treated with care and respect.
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Worlding, then, centers intimate and attentive relation to the text as an active participant rather than a passive recipient of our idea generation. In doing so, this anti-colonial epistemology rel…
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