"There are people who would be able to do the same if they’d been given the same privileges as me. I think of how, in our society, so many of us like to consider ourselves the heroes of our own stories. We tell ourselves that we would’ve been better than our ancestors: We would’ve fought slavery, fought internment and concentration camps, stopped genocide. Yet these are all things that are happening in the world right now, and I feel a helplessness and hopelessness…"
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On reflecting on the trials faced by their character Sigourney in their novel Queen of the Conquered in “INTERVIEWS: Kacen Callender in BookPage (2019 Nov 12)
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