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Daring to Nurture Untold Stories interview by Anne Winkler-Morey
http://turtleroad.org/2019/10/03/sherry-quan-lee-daring-to-nurture-untold-stories/
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“Essential Mentors, Organizations and Grassroots publications
There were so few mentors for writers of color in the Twin Cities back then. I was fortunate to meet Carolyn Holbrook andDavid Mura.
Carolyn had created SASE the Write Place to address the fact that The Loft— where she was the Director for five years– was not diverse at that time. People of color needed a place to write, read, and publish their work. SASE had readings almost every night at places all over the Twin Cities. I curated events at Black Bear Crossing and Patrick’s Cabaret. The curators would choose people in the neighborhood to read. They would get paid $25 a night, which was unheard of–for writers to get paid to read their work. In 2006, SASE merged with Intermedia Arts, which worked for a time, until they decided to drop it. Now Intermedia Arts is gone too.
Carolyn was deeply committed to mentoring, and her influence was far reaching. I thanked her recently for including my work when she edited the Drum Voices Review in 2000. She reminded me that I nominated her for the Kay Sexton Award, and she became the first person of color to win that award. Mentorship moves back and forth.
David Mura introduced me to the Asian American Renaissance, a grassroots pan-Asian Arts movement in the mid 1990s. AAR was an umbrella for Asian artists and arts organizations. It was a revelation for me, to connect with the vast world of Asian diaspora and dancers, performers, painters, as well as writers.”
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The “Love Imagined” blog is thanks to my publisher, LHP. Its main focus is writing. I am an author, literary editor, teacher, and mentor. My interests include: identity, particularly mixed-race identity; autism; the 70’s (not the decade, but the numeric age that I am); and, of course, writing and all its particulars.
My books include:
And You Can Love Me a story for everyone who loves someone with ASD (a picture book for children and adults)
How Dare We! Write a multicultural creative writing discourse
Love Imagined a mixed race memoir
Sherry Quan Lee
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Oh So Wild and Oh So Beautiful
What’s it like to be seventy? 2018, for me, was a year of introspection. Check out my thoughts on Midwest Mixed:
https://www.midwestmixed.com/community/midwest-mixed-community-spotlight-sherry-quan-lee
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Excerpt from How Dare We! Write
“The tinikling offers a visual explanation of how bilingual writing
works. Like the agile dancing feet of a tinikling dancer, a bilingual
writer’s mind is connected to her feet at all times, transferring and
translating the beat of clapping bamboos from a hearing experience to
a whole body experience. Living in a predominantly English-speaking
culture means you cannot stop to think or even attempt to explain
your actions and your meanings, or you will lose track of the dominant
beat and find yourself caught in the thorns of misunderstanding. I can’t
help but relate this to the spate of recent attacks on black bodies we
have witnessed. There is never time to explain your black skin or your
brown skin to someone intent on eradicating your black or brown
body because he or she feels threatened by the mere sight of you. You
have to keep dancing between the clapping bamboos of race
perception. Those who tried, hands up or not, have ended in tragedy.
Is this a far-fetched metaphor? If it is to you, you’ve never had to
dance/write between bamboos.”–Marlina Gonzalez, How Dare We! Write
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