Sep 9, 2015
"I’ve heard many others speak about not feeling like ‘real’ writers until Book #3 or #4 or #5. Some of this has to be linked to being a woman of colour in Canlit. We encounter a kind of dismissal that doesn’t happen to white male writers.“
New interview with writer and activist Farzana Doctor on heart-beats.ca where she discusses the whiteness of Canadian literature, her new novel ALL INCLUSIVE, and what she has learned from her years as an activist.
Interview & photos by Vivek Shraya.