@ClangingBells Yes, I hear that. However, I wanna push back a little. "Oral history" is amazing. Yet I think that celebrating it serves to
@ClangingBells +conceal our own writing. It's Phillis Wheatley birthday today, for example. Here's a black woman publishing poetry in 1700s.
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@ClangingBells The focus on "oral history" perhaps unwittingly obscures the fact that non-whites have been writing for ages.
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