‘The misconception that Indigenous languages are “lost” is by design.’
Read the full interview with Jaskwaan, a Xaad Kil speaker and teacher and @Rachael_em over here:
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Our best wishes to UVic Writing Alum @Rachael_em, who just signed a book deal with @HouseofAnansi press, for her debut novel RIVER MEETS THE SEA. Looking forward to seeing it in print!
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Young and educated Afghan women tell me they are burning their degree certificates and diplomas, so that they won't be targeted by the Taliban fighters going door to door. This is beyond heartbreaking.
Following the Vietnam War, our country welcomed 120,000 refugees in a single year.
Yet the United States has only taken in ~2,000 Afghan refugees thus far.
We have a duty to save lives — and to do so, we must welcome many, many more refugees as quickly as possible.
After the fall of Saigon, the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act allowed 130,000 refugees from South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia to enter the United States under a special status. The same should be done for Afghan refugees today.
she is passionate about telling the stories of those who, like her, have complex and braided identities.
Rachael is represented by @LWEstudio.
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Shortlisted for the Malahat Review’s 2020 Far Horizons Award for poetry, she has recently completed her debut novel “River Meets the Sea”. Rachael is of Afro-Asian diasporic, displaced Indigenous, & mixed European ancestry;
We're delighted to welcome @Rachael_em to Transatlantic!
Rachael Moorthy is a Canadian writer from the Salish Sea to Switzerland, whose writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in publications such as PRISM International, SAD Magazine, Revue Zinc, The Pigeon, and others.