Nadia Owusu

@NadiaOwusu1

Book “Aftershocks” US/ UK 2020|Work to close racial income&wealth gaps|Agent |2019 Award winner

Vrijeme pridruživanja: ožujak 2012.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    22. lis 2019.

    I am so grateful and excited to share this book, that took my whole life to make. Thank you, for helping make this dream real. Everyone: you can pre-order it here. I hope you'll consider reading it. <3

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  2. prije 9 sati

    I'm traveling so can't make this, but I'm in <3 with this book. So much one-note nonsense about immigrants out there, but these stories celebrate complexity/multiplicity/specificity. Honored to have an essay included. Head over to if you're free, NYers!

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  3. 31. sij

    I have hives again and I blame winter and the terrible soap opera called American Politics.

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  4. 29. sij

    "When writing about experiences that are not our own... especially when these lived experiences are heavily politicized, oppressed, threatened, and disbelieved—when this is the case, the writer’s duty to imagine well, responsibly, and with complexity becomes even more critical."

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  5. 28. sij

    Thank you for sharing! My latest column for : Hiring a Chief Diversity Officer will not solve company’s racism problem. Diversity and equity must be everyone's job and leadership must hold themselves accountable for change.

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  6. 27. sij

    Fun to see out in the world, making friends on the table . My essay The Wailing Is included in this anthology from , edited by and , alongside 20 other writers on immigration/family/meaning of home.

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  7. 26. sij

    Hit on by trump supporter at bar in philly Amtrak station. He talked at me despite non response, culminating in his noting that I probably don’t like trump as I’m a millennial, but he would never judge me for it. Left half-drunk wine at bar to escape. He won. So mad at self.

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  8. 25. sij

    Library people are the best. What a lovely first event for my book baby, Aftershocks!

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  9. 25. sij

    Thank you for having me at my very first book event for Aftershocks! Had a great time with the other debut authors at

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  10. 25. sij

    He throws fit at being asked questions re. Ukraine even though it’s at center of impeachment. Suggests Americans don’t care. Just released statement insinuating reporter couldn’t identify Ukraine on map, which is most likely a bold-faced lie and also, quite frankly, irrelevant.

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  11. 24. sij

    Further: To whom am I accountable? How will I hold myself accountable to my values? To my communities? To the communities I’m writing about? Am I in accountable relationships? How can I complicate my own assumptions? How am I complicit? How might I do harm?

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  12. 24. sij

    I did make mistakes. I still do. I’m sure I will in the future. I think a better question, or an additional question, to “Am I allowed” is “Am I accountable?”

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  13. 24. sij

    When I was a kid and we moved to a new country, I was always worried I’d mess up and offend people with a wrong word or gesture or by misunderstanding a custom or norm. I think that’s a good thing—that worry.

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  14. 24. sij

    Well, sure. No one is going to stop you. But if we’re not honest with ourselves about why we’re gazing and from where, then we might not do a good job. Empathy is important. Self-interrogation is a necessary practice. It’s one I am committed to in my writing and in life.

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  15. 24. sij

    Reducing the question to whether we’re “allowed” to write a story, I think, lets us off the hook too easy, particularly if the answer is a self-righteous, “But I should be able to play any person, tree, or animal.” That’s a Scarlett Johansson reference.

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  16. 24. sij

    My ability or inability to speak the local language? From where am I gazing at others? Can I trust myself? What are my limitations?

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  17. 24. sij

    I lived in Ethiopia, Uganda, Italy, and England. How do my varied identities affect how I understand those places? My blackness? My biracial-ness? My American accent? My UN-employed parent? My international school education? My US passport?

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  18. 24. sij

    What rights do I have to the stories of Ghana? What do I miss because I never lived there? Because I don’t speak Twi or Ga or Pidgin? How do I write about being black in America while acknowledging my blind spots not having lived here until I was 18?

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  19. 24. sij

    How do I write about the Armenian genocide? I am half-Armenian but did not grow up with that side of my family.

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  20. 24. sij

    As a writer with a complicated identity who doesn’t belong to any culture or country in a comfortable sense, I am always thinking about where my body is in relation to the stories I’m telling, even when those stories are about my own life.

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  21. 24. sij

    The question of who “is allowed” to tell a story is perhaps, on its own, too simple a question. 1/

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