How do you create a life you’ve never seen before, and how do you trust that it honors those before you? In this workshop, writer-in-residence Amanda Machado explores how queer writers and writers of color have used writing as a tool to define the future they desired but could not yet create. In particular, the class will focus on writing from queer people of color from immigrant families. Through the inspiration of work from Audre Lorde, Daisy Hernandez, Ocean Vuong and others, together we’ll write on prompts that help unearth stories about how queerness and the immigrant experience help us think differently about desire, respectability, “the American Dream,” and family legacy.