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Award-winning writer Elise Schmit has turned to the English language for her latest projects. She has also been vocal in arguing for the importance of inclusive language in culture.
Duncan Roberts: You have just had a short story, Blue Like a Tangerine, published in English. What inspired you to write in English?
Elise Schmit: During the first lockdown, I started writing stories for friends of mine, to cheer them up basically. And one of my friends is a writer who doesn’t speak German. So, I started working on two versions simultaneously, a German one and an English one. I was surprised, because I really try to showcase what I do when I write. So, it became a very personal and important story for me. And that is why I gave it to Red Fox Press [with illustrations by Antic-Ham].
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Thank God he can read good, and writes great, run the whole entire state with the right bass. Thank God he’s not a chess player, over-thinking (expletive) keep it player, mayonnaise and mustard with the slowed-up sound. Thank God he’s poet now. Poster child you flagrant fouls. Thank God he can run fast and he can jump high . or else he’d be a dead man. Deezie Brown, “Sumn to Say”
Growing up in rural Texas, Deezie Brown observed what he thinks of as “small-town syndrome.”
Young Black men would either play sports or fall into crime, he said on a recent episode of Austin360’s streaming show, the Monday Music Mashup.
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