Tag: education

Writer’s Bloc Partnership: Go Back Where You Came From

Writer's Bloc Go Back Where You Came From

“Go back to where you came from.” It’s our guess that just about every immigrant and/or person of color in the United States heard, at one time or another, the insult hurled by someone who has lived here for, well, longer. But we all know that if we’re not Indigenous peoples, we all came from… Read more »

Writer’s Bloc Partnership: Bernardine Evaristo & Roxane Gay

Writer's Bloc Bernardine Evaristo & Roxane Gay

Bernardine Evaristo was an unlikely — and surprising– winner of the 2019 Booker Prize for her extraordinary novel, Girl, Woman, Other. She is the first Black woman to win the Booker, which is considered to be the most prestigious prize for a novel written in the English language. And second, she is the first Black British person… Read more »