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otherness

[uhth-er-nis] / ˈʌð ər nɪs /






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What Thompson-Hernández’s art so easily dispels, no matter the genre it finds a home in, are all the knotty, misguided and trite representations of otherness in our contemporary world.

From Los Angeles Times

Ishmaelle finds this man’s presence a comfort and his otherness to be reassuring in the way it mirrors her own exile from home, her gender and from land itself.

From Los Angeles Times

But the sense of otherness remained, even after Carlile married and had two kids with British charity director Catherine Shepherd.

From BBC

Amina’s sleepwalking—a concept inconceivable to the villagers, who think the town is haunted—gets her in trouble, and is here a manifestation of her “otherness” and innate resistance to the community’s rigidity.

From The Wall Street Journal

How are these collaborations a small resistance to that cruel way of seeing otherness?

From Los Angeles Times