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So many of the engineers were Northerners, relatively agnostic on the racial issue but devout when it came to mathematical talent.
Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly
Feld rarely addresses Silberman's points directly (she doesn't even link to his article), choosing instead to writing a promotional piece about all the good she thinks her organization does -- based on its own yardsticks. And she completely ignores Silberman's observations about exclusion and representation, such as, "Imagine a world in which the leadership of the NAACP was all-white; now
consider that not a single autistic person serves on the board of Autism
Speaks. This absence makes itself felt."
THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM: Liz Feld and Autism Speaks: No, Really,
thinkingautismguide.com
If you've ever felt this way about your writing, you're not alone. The truth is that there's always a gap between the story as you imagined it—compelling, insightful, rich with subtle nuance—and what actually ends up in the manuscript.
Elements of Fiction Writing - Beginnings, Middles & Ends
Nancy Kress
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