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  • ‘The Ethics of Quantum Colonialism’: Navigating American Racial Anxiety in N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became
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Author Jessica Militante

Jessica Militante

Jessica Militante is a Stanford graduate and current MA in Creative Writing student at University College Cork. She is the first recipient of the Choctaw-Ireland Scholarship which was created to commemorate the strong connection between the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and the people of Ireland. Her work has been published in The Echo, UCC’s literary journal The Quarryman, Ó Bhéal’s Five Words Anthology, and is forthcoming in HeadStuff.

Kindred Spirits: Solidarity Between the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and Ireland

Jessica Militante
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Growing up in California, I often heard stories of my ancestry. There were the ones I heard from my maternal grandmother, a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Then there were the ones I heard from my pat... Read More...
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