Thanks for the response. You bring up several good points. I don’t know what it’s like to be a woman + additional non-hegemonic cultural subset (African American, Native America, Latina, gay, for instance). I can only imagine the additional challenges faced when trying to write good work, plus deal with another set of limiting stereotypes. I think that in the same way that calling certain types of writing (disjunctive, circular writing) “feminine” is reductive, so are expectations that because you are Native American, you will write about salmon, frybread, powwows, etc., and nothing else. How ridiculous!
