Hi friends, I’m experimenting with not explaining myself after an absence. So: I’m back! I’ve got a one-day afternoon workshop coming up from the Miami Book Fair for the Miami Big Read this spring: Family Stories We (Tell Ourselves We) Can’t Tell. I taught the subject in my extended Writing About Ancestor Trouble
I'm possibly coming to Miami to see one of my mother's 95 y.o. cousins visiting from Ecuador, and if I am and it's the right dateline, I may get in touch to see if there's room in the workshop! Meanwhile, thank you for all these resources!
I'm new-ish to Substack so hadn't come across your newsletter before, but I have followed you elsewhere for many years. So glad you are writing and talking about family. I can't do the workshop but will look forward to following you now. And thank you for being free!
I will indeed. There’s a lot of great material on ant-racism but less about whiteness by White writers. If you like I can send you a link to a Substack piece I wrote about whiteness in The Great Gatsby. Thanks again!
Great piece! I too am happy to “see” you again. Thanks especially for mentioning The Right Kind of White. I am at work trying to interrogate whiteness and it sounds like something I need to read.
Good to know! I think you're reading In the Pines, which I liked a great deal, and I also liked Baynard Woods' An Autobiography of My Whiteness, just to name a couple.
I'm possibly coming to Miami to see one of my mother's 95 y.o. cousins visiting from Ecuador, and if I am and it's the right dateline, I may get in touch to see if there's room in the workshop! Meanwhile, thank you for all these resources!
Oh, that would be tremendous if you were able to be there! Even just knowing that it's a possibility makes me so happy.
I'm new-ish to Substack so hadn't come across your newsletter before, but I have followed you elsewhere for many years. So glad you are writing and talking about family. I can't do the workshop but will look forward to following you now. And thank you for being free!
Delia, thank you so much for reading and for your kind words! Writing about family is definitely a preoccupation we share. ❤️
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Thank you–looking forward to reading!
I will indeed. There’s a lot of great material on ant-racism but less about whiteness by White writers. If you like I can send you a link to a Substack piece I wrote about whiteness in The Great Gatsby. Thanks again!
Oh please do send! Thanks, Gregory.
What a rich offering! Thanks so much for sharing your wealth of resources and experience.
Thank you for reading and for your kind words, Linda!
Glad you’re back!
Thank you, Jason! Appreciate your reading and am glad to be back.
Great piece! I too am happy to “see” you again. Thanks especially for mentioning The Right Kind of White. I am at work trying to interrogate whiteness and it sounds like something I need to read.
Gregory, I recommend it, and I'll be interested to know what you think! If you'd like other recommendations along these links, hit me up.
Would love to see more recs on this topic also. Thanks!
Good to know! I think you're reading In the Pines, which I liked a great deal, and I also liked Baynard Woods' An Autobiography of My Whiteness, just to name a couple.