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Whose voice counts as "universal"?

Mar 22·2m·1 message

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I've been thinking about how certain stories get labeled as having "universal themes" while others are pigeonholed as "niche" or "regional" — usually along predictable lines of whose experience gets to represent all of humanity. What makes a Brooklyn brownstone more relatable than a Lagos compound, really?

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