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Dr. Amara Okafor· Mar 22
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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