Wednesday, June 23, 2021

On Nafissa Thompson-Spires's "Fatima, the Biloquist"


By Andrea Brown 

 In "Fatima, the Biloquist," Nafissa Thompson-Spires touches base on what Blackness means by approaching its polysemic nature. What does it mean to be Black if you grew up around all white people or if your features resemble whiteness? Thompson-Spires lets us know with this story that there’s no primary way to be Black and it is slightly impossible to try to place it under one roof.

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