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Category: A Cup of Water Under My Bed
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People often ask if it was hard for me, as a journalist, to write a memoir. It wasn’t. In many ways, the people I interviewed over the years for news stories—many of them immigrants, many of them poor—taught me to trust the power of personal stories. One of them was Alaaedien. He drove cabs in…
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When Daisy Hernández thinks about Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg’s classic novel of the transgender experience, she thinks of a conference room in Manhattan and a young trans man she was in love with.
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Beacon Broadside recently spoke with Daisy Hernández about her new book A Cup of Water Under My Bed, her literary and cultural influences, and the process of finding herself, both within her immigrant community and within the new, queer life she created for herself.
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