"I recently read how it's only .01 percent of our DNA that's responsible for the expression of our skin colour and our traits, all of which are our outward appearance that we define as race. But those things are the things that we use to define each other. We are biased when we look at a person, when we are talking specifically about race"
Marguerite is an American writer and editor with a background in literature, translation, and magazine publishing.
Marguerite currently has a book out titled The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human, which you can locate at here website linked below.
Focusing on world cultures, she aims to understand the nuances that separate us, with the resolve to further our understanding of each other through her work.
Marguerite has spent many years living in different environments that are & foreign to her - Holland, Chile, France, and now lives in Sri Lanka.
She is currently editing memoirs by Iranian, Kuwaiti-American, Bangladeshi, and Ugandan-American authors, and gathering writings for an artist book about birth traditions around the globe.
Marguerite recently curated a collection of diverse stories by authors from many Muslim worlds, entitled The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human, which was published by Penguin in December 2019.
She says her mission is to try to promote cultural awareness by supporting the voices of those heard less often than her, specifically through literature.
Marguerite’s website - https://www.margueriterichards.com/
Marguerite’s Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/margueriterichards/?hl=en
Marguerite’s YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT9ESu76fwhqn9_NRndQ2Eg
