“I grew up an able-bodied, middle-class, queer transgender man of color in an immigrant family in a farming & factory town in rural Illinois during the region’s transformation from bread basket to rust belt. Phew! That experience helped me recognize
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“As the daughter of a black man who grew up in Virginia during Jim Crow, and a white woman raised in a small Kansas town, navigating race always affected every part of my life. But witnessing the Rodney King beating
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