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Tag: Lara Lillibridge
INTERVIEW: Nefertiti Austin, Author of Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
Interview by Lara LillibridgeMotherhood So White. That’s what Nefertiti, a single African American woman, discovered when she decided she wanted to adopt a Black baby boy out of the foster care system. Eager to finally join the motherhood ranks, Nefertiti was shocked when people started asking her why she wanted to adopt a “crack baby”…
INTERVIEW: Leslie Lehr, Author of A Boob’s Life
Interview with Cecile Pineda, author of Entry Without Inspection: A Writer’s Life in El Norte
Interview by Lara LilllibridgeCecile Pineda is an-award-winning Chicana novelist, memoirist, theater director, performer, and activist who felt misplaced throughout much of her early life. Her father was an undocumented Mexican immigrant, and her mother was a French-speaking immigrant from Switzerland. Pineda, born in New York City, felt culturally disconnected from both of her parents, while…