An important role that writers can play is in documenting resistance movements. This can ensure visibility, facilitate recognition, and bring margina… - Peace Adzo Medie

Marriage shouldn’t be a never-ending competition where you spend your life fighting to be seen and chosen.

My identify plays a huge role in my writing. I’m Black, Ghanaian, and a woman, and one of the reasons I wrote His Only Wife was that I was hungry for stories of Black women just living their lives and doing regular things. In the social sciences, we know—although some continue to resist this truth—that our identities matter for our research: They matter for what we research, how we conduct our research, and how we write our findings. In the same way, I think our identities matter for the stories we tell and how we tell them.

I knew that even though we were surrounded by a large family, we had nobody.