Back in July, I took part in a conversation with the editors of What God Is Honored Here and some of the other contributing writers for the University of Minnesota Press podcast. It was a genuine honor to be included in the conversation. The more I hear from the women who made this anthology possible - the editors and the writers, the more grateful I am to be heard among their voices. Click here to give it a listen. Miscarriage and infant loss are experiences that disproportionately affect Indigenous women and women of color. WHAT GOD IS HONORED HERE? is the first book of its kind, a literary collection of voices of these women coming together to speak about the traumas and tragedies of womanhood. "We are talking about equity. We are talking about racism. We are talking about all of the things that we’ve been needing to talk about. This work is only still beginning," says co-editor Kao Kalia Yang, who is joined here by co-editor Shannon Gibney and writers Michelle Borok, Soniah Kamal, Jami Nakamura Lin, and Seema Reza. This edited conversation was recorded in July 2020.
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While everyone is adjusting to #CoronaLife, that's been life in Mongolia since mid-January. A week after our family came home from an amazing trip to the U.S. to spend Christmas with my parents and the week after New Year's with my best friend, the outbreak in China had exploded and Mongolia was on high alert, deathly afraid of the novel coronavirus crossing the border. Schools closed and "quarantine" began. Every day since has been varying degrees of anxiety about what ifs. I'm one of the lucky ones who has always worked remotely and, for the most part, work hasn't changed much for me, but life at home is something else.
So, while this isn't involuntary free time for me, with all the thoughts spinning in my head, I figured it was time to finally launch my website. I'll be archiving past writing that's currently floating around on the internet and sharing new writing, but mostly trying to consolidate the traces of me online. We'll see how it goes... |
Michelle BorokI'm a writer and editor living in Darkhan, Mongolia, by way of Los Angeles. It's a long story... I write about it sometimes. Archives
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