It's difficult for me to imagine a circumstance in which you're disguising your origins in which someone doesn't get hurt. Jess Row circumstancedifficultdisguise Change image and share on social
As a white teen, I was very drawn to hip-hop culture, almost to the point of disappearing in it - there was a sense of having no sense of authenticity except this one that wasn't mine. Jess Row authenticityculturedisappear Change image and share on social
White writers in many cases choose not to populate their fiction with people of color. A lot of what I'm doing is trying to write against that, not about race but against the avoidance of race that's such a dominant model in white literary discourse. Jess Row avoidancecasechoose share on social
My greatest fear about a world in which racial reassignment surgery becomes common is that it then becomes an expression of all kinds of class privilege. You have a truly dystopian society divided between the people who can afford to be racially altered and perfected and the ones who can't. Jess Row affordalterclass share on social