"I could not write properly until I owned every aspect of my identity - my identity as a lesbian woman, my identity as a black woman, my identity as a Jamaican woman, an immigrant, then also a working-class Jamaican woman..."
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On how coming out strengthened her writing in “Nicole Dennis-Benn On 'Patsy'” in NPR (2019 Jun 9)
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