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Zahir Janmohamed: Writer of Color

We’ve all been there. That moment in a writing workshop where you notice you are the only person of color…and your peers–no matter how liberal and enlightenened–want to talk about your race rather than your work. Writes award-winning journalist and human rights activist Zahir Janmohamed for Guernica Magazine’s “Race Issue:” I sat on the bean bag […]