Icess Fernandez Rojas, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/icess-fernandez-rojas/ A Home for Black Women Writers Sun, 15 Sep 2024 01:32:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Icess Fernandez Rojas, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/icess-fernandez-rojas/ 32 32 153713158 The Language of Home https://www.midnightandindigo.com/language-of-home/ Thu, 28 Jan 2021 05:00:59 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=77943 I hear my student say that word and I’m not surprised. I knew this student was going to say it because this student is clueless to the world; he knows only what he has been brought up to believe. He was raised in a world I am way too familiar with and so I knew he’d say it because in his country and in the country of his parents, the word “n*gger” doesn’t exist. He is from one of the Latin American countries where boys are men and women are girls because somehow that’s how it was supposed to be

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