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Saladin Ahmed

Saladin Ahmed

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Birthday October 4, 1975

Educated At University Of Michigan, Rutgers University, Henry Ford Community College

Nationality United States Of America

Occupations Science Fiction Writer, Novelist, Writer

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Smart writers understand that writers aren’t any smarter than anyone else.

— Saladin Ahmed, via twitter.com

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If you are paid to write you should not use the word misconduct when you mean rape that's just sloppy writing.

— Saladin Ahmed, via twitter.com

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If we’re being honest - and I feel like this crosses race and class lines - male culture tries to make boys/men feel fucked up for NOT being harassers. That’s how warped this shit is.

— Saladin Ahmed, via twitter.com

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there are a lot of bad stories out there doing real harm in the world

it’s up to us to tell better ones

— Saladin Ahmed, via twitter.com

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A lot of us look like we are thriving but are just barely making it. Know that you are not alone in living with this.

— Saladin Ahmed, via twitter.com

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If you set huge new goals for yourself tonight, that’s fantastic.

If you’re barely making it and just hope you can keep doing that in 2018: you’re not the only one.

If you barely made it through 2017 and are focused on survival rather than dramatic self improvement: you are not the only one.

— Saladin Ahmed, via twitter.com

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Any weapon we develop to kill ‘those people’ will always eventually be used to kill ‘our people.’

We need to think carefully not about whether these things should be legal but whether they should exist in the first place

— Saladin Ahmed, via twitter.com

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teach your boys that they should be kind to other people and that hurting other people is bad.

they need to hear it from you explicitly.

don't just teach with words. SHOW your boys (yes, boys in particular) that you respect them helping more than you respect them dominating.

— Saladin Ahmed, via twitter.com

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thing.

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For me, words that you can’t understand in a book aren’t there to torture or remind people that they don’t know. I always felt they were to remind people that part of the experience of reading has always been collective. You learn to read with someone else…Reading is a collective enterprise.

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My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use—my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.

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