Writing Under a Pen Name is a Necessity and Not a Choice For Me
Being queer means I may never be able to write under my own name
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5 min readOct 15, 2019
My father, being the over-protective first-generation African lawyer that he is, used to drum into our heads the importance of managing your online profile. He would tell us that as Black people, we didn’t have the same room of error our peers do. So…