![]() These are essays which aren’t afraid to lay bare the brutality of treatment that you can recieve as a person of colour in the west, and intimately document the unqiue struggles with identity that we face. The final product features some of gal-dem’s favourite, young WoC writers such as Reni Eddo-Lodge and Kieran Yates – who we recently interviewed for gal-dem’s upcoming print issue (pre-order here) – along with others, including poet and writer Salena Godden, comedian Nish Kumar, teacher Darren Chetty and, of course, our very own arts and culture editor, Varaidzo. The book then reached its funding target within three days and, so far, has been positively reviewed in the Guardian, The Spectator, and Newsweek. A crowdfunded anthology of essays on race and immigration, it was supported by JK Rowling, who tweeted back in December that she believed it would be “an important, timely read”. ![]() The Good Immigrant was always going to be special. It is soothing in the way it encapsulates my lived experiences making me feel less alone with more permanance, eloquence and creativity than many of the equivalent essays I have come across elsewhere. Nikesh Shukla, launching today, September 22), reads like a lullaby. ![]() If you are not an immigrant, or the child of an immigrant, you might not understand this sentiment, but to me, The Good Immigrant (ed. ![]()
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