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This Is Actually Happening
Ingrid Rojas-Contreras' memoir, "The Man Who Could Move Clouds," was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award. It was described as having a colonialist mindset, and it was told as a non-fiction story, but was told as a fiction story.
Ingrid's memoir The Man Who Could Move Clouds was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
— Episode: 323: What if you were suddenly a blank s...
Episode: 323: What if you were suddenly a blank slate?
Ingrid Rojas-Contreras' memoir, "The Man Who Could Move Clouds," was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award. It was described as having a colonialist mindset, and it was told as a non-fiction story, but was told as a fiction story.
Ingrid's memoir The Man Who Could Move Clouds was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
I think that I was able to do so much thinking around what memory means and what having a self means.
I had been corrected years and years before when I had first tried to write that story and I had abandoned it feeling like maybe I'm wrong like maybe I don't know what's real and what's not real.
Growing up, my aunts and uncles would always tell me stories about you know I saw your grandfather move clouds and this is what it looked like.
The feedback that I got was oh this is fiction this is not something that actually happened. There's like a colonialist mindset in the United States of thinking only our culture is correct or only our culture is the truth and everything else that deviates from that is made up or it's fiction.