Zellain

I'm Zellain. 27, married, bisexual lady from California currently living in Arizona (and hating it).

I run Morbid Fashion (grown-up gothic fashion); Spooky Home (interior design); Traum Design (graphic design) & Zellainist (feminist blog).

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I grew up reading a generation of American and English people like [Saul] Bellow, [John] Updike or [Martin] Amis. Everybody’s neutral unless they’re black — then you hear about it: the black man, the black woman, the black person. Of course, if you happen to be black the world doesn’t look that way to you. I just wanted to try and create perhaps a sense of alienation and otherness in this person, the white reader, to remind them that they are not neutral to other people.

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Zadie Smith, discussing how she never mentions the race of any of the characters in her new novel, NW, unless they are white. (via theraconteurasaurus)

[Love this — kelly sue]

(via kellysue)

Oh good. That was what I did in my novel Anansi Boys. (I took some flak for it — and even found myself accused of various bad things by people who hadn’t noticed that most of the characters were African/African-American/Caribbean/Anglo-Caribbean/Of Very Mixed Race, and who felt somehow tricked or confused. But it felt very right. Still does.)

(Source: NPR, via neil-gaiman)

Date Posted: 13 October, 2012 with 5495 Notes
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