Lindsay shares that she moved from Vancouver to Winnipeg to pursue an assistant professorship and experienced the most racism she has ever known. She said she would be turned away from rental properties when the landlord said she could not afford it, and someone would always search her bag at stores, being suspicious she stole something. She states the importance of being aware of microaggressions.
LINDSAY WONG is the author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning, and bestselling memoir The Woo-Woo, which was a finalist for Canada Reads 2019. She has written a YA novel entitled My Summer of Love and Misfortune and a debut collection of short fiction, Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality, which was shortlisted for the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes. Wong holds a BFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA in literary nonfiction from Columbia University. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Winnipeg. Follow her on X/Twitter @LindsayMWong, Instagram @Lindsaywong.M, or visit www.lindsaywongwriter.com.
