Award-winning author Darien Hsu Gee read select works last Thursday, Oct. 12, at the UConn Bookstore in Storrs Center, thanks to UConn’s Creative Writing Program. She is now the third recipient of the Mark Twain Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Program, following Alexander Chee in 2021 and Justin Torres in 2019.
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Dip hop is one of many styles of rap that have developed over the years. But it stands apart from other subgenres of hip-hop because rappers lay down rhymes in sign languages and craft music informed by their cultural experiences within the Deaf community.
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