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Author Archives: Michi Trota

Michi Trota is an essayist and speaker who often focuses on exploring issues of identity, culture, community, representation, and social justice through analyzing and deconstructing narratives around pop culture and food. She is a five-time Hugo Award winner and a British Fantasy Award winner. She is the first Filipina to win a Hugo Award and the first person of color to hold the role of Editor-in-Chief of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

Michi is based in Chicago, where she lives with her husband and two cats, and also works as a fire performance artist. Follow her on Twitter @GeekMelange.

color photograph of a small outdoor protest against child labor
Posted inEconomy & Workers' Rights

Employers and policymakers choose child labor over raising wages

michi by Michi Trota March 17th, 2023March 20th, 2023

Those who tout the “benefits” of child labor reinforce white supremacist, capitalist systems that are rooted in American slavery

The racist criminal legal system won't save Asian Americans from gun violence
Posted inCrime, Reform & Abolition

The racist criminal legal system won’t save Asian Americans from gun violence

michi by Michi Trota January 26th, 2023January 26th, 2023

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