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Working Bibliography

1. "About Mia". Mia McKenzie. Mia McKenzie. Retrieved 28 July 2015.

2. "About BGD". Black Girl Dangerous. Mia McKenzie. Retrieved 28 July 2015.

3. Benner, Rachel. "‘Black Girl Dangerous’ Mia McKenzie speaks at U of O". Daily Emerald. Charlie Weaver. Retrieved 29 July 2015.

4. Whitney, Todd. "Black Girl Dangerous: a conversation with Mia McKenzie". KAWL Local Public Radio 91.7FM in San Francisco. Retrieved 29 July 2015.

5. "Mia McKenzie". YouTube. Retrieved 29 July 2015.

6. "The Summer We Got Free". Google Books. Retrieved 29 July 2015.

7. "Black Girl Dangerous: On Race, Queerness, Class and Gender". Google Books. Retrieved 29 July 2015.

8. "The Banal and the Profane: Mia McKenzie". Lambda Literary. Lambda Literary Foundation. Retrieved 29 July 2015.

9. Akili, Yolo. "Brilliant Black Fiction: Mia McKenzie's The Summer We Got Free". Huff Post Black Voices. The Huffington Post. Retrieved 29 July 2015.

10. Smith, Lorin. "Black Girl Dangerous Comes To Brown: Blogger, Activist and Author Mia McKenzie Shares her Writings and Thoughts on Being Dangerous". Bluestockings Magazine. Retrieved 29 July 2015.

11. Jarelle, Cyrée. "InspiHERed By: Mia McKenzie". ELIXHER Magazine.

Making space

She "uses her writing and website to make space for LGBTQ people of color" - it's not totally clear to me what this means. Social sciences jargon? Can it be rephrased to be more specific? Equinox ◑ 17:55, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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