Tag: Junot Diaz

Junot Díaz: privilege and the power of art #HHM

Díaz recently spoke at the National Endowment for the Humanities’ 50th anniversary conference

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#HHM Watch: An Evening With Writer Junot Díaz

In the video, Díaz is speaking at the Walt Whitman Writers Series at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, NY.

When “X-Men: Apocalypse” fails its heroes of color, it fails the “X-Men” spirit

LINK: Slate’s Nico Lang dissects the hideous corpse of Simon Kinberg’s latest Super!Fail

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Junot Díaz on the Complexities Beneath the Blanket Term “Race”

LINK: Our Limiting Mythologies of Success, Why Dictatorships Are Like Reddit, and How Artists Survive

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What Neil Gaiman & Junot Diaz Talk About When They Talk About ‘Sandman: Overture’

LINK: Read at Tor.com.

Comics Recs for Fans of Junot Díaz

Recced By Panels’ Kris Saldaña

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Casting the Octavia Butler movie of our speculative, afrofuturist, sci-fi dreams

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Joshunda Sanders’s Work Will Be In ‘All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color’

Read at joshunda.com.

Once published, this collection of short stories by POC women will be sitting on a bookshelf much like this one. Only after being devoured, of course.

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Where Are All the Latino Genre Fiction Writers? Right Here!

Click here to read at Truthisweirder.com.

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7 Short Stories by Junot Díaz Free Online, In Text and Audio

Openculture.com tells us all about it.