"We're at an era where a lot of people are beginning to step in, in a really firm way, into their identities. Whether people are saying...they're born with one sex, they say: I'm actually another gender—that's who I am; or people are claiming their cultural heritage in a more profound way than they have in the past...For any number of reasons, we have an opportunity to construct our identities that are more honest and open and true to who we are than what we've been handed at birth."
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Novelists from the United StatesShort story writers from the United StatesAfrican AmericansPeople from Utah
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On people being their true selves in “Tope Folarin Was 'A Particular Kind Of Black Man' — So He Wrote A Book About It” in NPR (2019 Aug 24)
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