About
My lola: my muse.
Biography
M.F.A in Fiction (in-progress)
Mills College
B.A. in English (Emphasis in Creative Writing), Minor in Philosophy
University of Southern California
Melissa R. Sipin won first place in Glimmer Train’s 2013 March Fiction Open for her story, “Walang Hiya, Brother,” and her writing is published or forthcoming in Glimmer Train Stories, Kartika Review, Kweli Journal, Tidal Basin Review, Lantern Review, and The Bakery, among others. She was awarded the Tennessee Williams scholarship at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 2013, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2012, and is pursuing her MFA in fiction at Mills College. As a VONA/Voices fellow, organizer of The Window Literary Salon, and a Navy wife, she splits her time writing on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts.
Sipin has worked with many esteemed writers on her craft, such as Elmaz Abinader, Patricia Powell, Achy Obejas, Micheline Marcom, Aimee Bender, Percival Everett, ZZ Packer, Laura Pegram, M. Evelina Galang, Cornelia Nixon, and Naomi Benaron. View her full CV: here, and resume: here.
Thank you for the post on stereotypes and minorities.
there is a similar problem in Sweden.
Here is a link to my and my friend´s thesis about it. Unfortunately only the abstract is in English but there are some good tools for finding bias in textbooks there.
Best regards,
David
http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:421819
Thank you for this, Rasta teacher! I’ll definitely look into it and read the abstract. Too bad I’m not fluent in Swedish. ):
Hi, I was just reading your hallowe’en costume article and I was wondering if you have any suggestions for how one could evaluate their costume idea to see if its appropriate. A series of yes/no questions or something to use as a tool perhaps?
For example. My idea was to be a tradtional withc (green face, etc…) but, since I have a black sari from living in India I thought i might wear that, and use some indian motifs in my makeup. Would that be inappropriate? I thought it was just a classic costume with a twist until I saw this, now I’m concerned…
I just want to say you have wrote a great post. Different cultures should live together in harmony and only in this way we would own a colorful and wonderful world.
I am study English and I would learn from you.