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When, long after puberty had done its work, I was finally able to re-admit my original understanding of myself to myself, I saw my self-loathing in a new light.
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An introduction to the folio “E. Ethelbert Miller: Friendship Is What Keeps Us Whole.”
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the universe
blacker and more beautiful than
I imagined.
the universe
blacker and more beautiful than
I imagined.
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Poet, writer, and educator Tanaya Winder is an enrolled member of the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe and has ancestors from the Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute, Navajo, and Black tribes. She grew up on the Southern Ute reservation in Ignacio, Colorado, and earned her BA at Stanford and an MFA from the University of New Mexico. Winder’s collections of poetry include Words Like Love (2015) and Why Storms are Named After People and... Read More
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