Suzy Valtsioti posted: " an excerpt from "How to Inhabit the Word"/Guernica Magazine from same article in Guernica. Spring Smell, Friedel Dzubas, via WikiArt. "...For years now, I have been trying to write my own fractured history. Being hafu Japanese and white America"
"...For years now, I have been trying to write my own fractured history. Being hafu Japanese and white American means that I am excluded from the mythic monoethnic past my two motherlands preserve and perpetuate. I can draw no straight line between me and any ancestors by blood, and so I have been drawing a complicated tidal chart, ebbing and flowing across time, objects, and place. But this process has left me too often feeling disoriented, lost. I craved a guide, someone who could braid the political and personal with bravery and care." ...
..."To know something is not enough. Even if we know that war is wrong or gunning someone down at a traffic stop is murder, knowledge is cold. It does little to move us."...
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