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First steps in writing a family history?

Last year, I decided that I wanted to learn more about my family history and start writing a narrative that centers on my grandmother, a woman who immigrated to the U.S. as a domestic worker in the early 1970s. I'm not sure if this will…
Photo of a Barbie dollPhoto by Tara Winstead: https://www.pexels.com/photo/toy-doll-of-woman-dressed-in-dress-6479562/

‘Life in Plastic:’ Barbies and the origins of storytelling

As Barbie movies and documentaries become part of popular culture, I look back at my own formative memories with the doll and it's connection to my love of stories.
Photo by Joanne Adela Low

Learning to love scary movies

How a non-horror fan learned to stop worry and enjoy scary movies.
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Revising Period Dramas: Bridgerton and the Erasure of Black British History

Bridgerton has become one of Bridgerton’s erasure of the real history of Black Britons in its first season signals that period drama’s legacy of whitewashing history and fiction remains the standard.
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Meghan Markle and Olivia Fairfield: Mixed-race Wives, White Husbands, and the Return Home

Comparing Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, to 1808's The Woman of Colour's Olivia Fairfield highlights a long history of prejudice across the Atlantic.
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Searching for my Roots

As a child of Caribbean immigrants, I have spent my life asking questions about my heritage and learning that there may not be answers.