Avoiding Self-Censorship in a Censoring Age

Feeling like my lips are taped shut

Photo by Brian Wangenheim on Unsplash

A few years ago, I began working intensively on a contemporary novel tracing a disastrous feud over property rights between a wealthy, white American family and a local Indigenous family with centuries-old ancestral claims to the white family’s land.

I was in love with my story and all its characters in what I intende…