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Velcro City Tourist Board —
... more likely I leave as an exercise for the reader.) This line of thinking says I cannot write about female characters because I am not a woman, or Jewish characters because I am a Gentile. That way lies madness. Our field, at its best, is about Writing the Other."
Tagged with: writing • culture • background • ethnicity • race • gender • politics • otherness •
Local Currencies Grow During Economic Recession
"You don't just go online and use ...
While the economy falls, local currencies rise
Futurismic —
... an idea whose time has come - or rather, has come back? In the Berkshires of Massachusetts, a local currency called Berkshares is being buoyed up by the current economic crisis, and receiving a lot of enquiries from other communities interested in replicating its success: ...
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