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黒田理沙・Lisa HK

@lhkuroda

literary translator | Ryunosuke Akutagawa's KAPPA, New Directions '23 | 日英文芸翻訳家、高等遊民 | 芥川龍之介「河童」等

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Did you know Sojourner Truth’s first language was Dutch? The version of her speech we are taught today “aint I a woman” was a version transcribed years later by a white woman who rendered her speech in what she imagined to be Black southern vernacular. That’s not how Truth spoke.

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