There’s a form of currency from immigrants and people of color that publishers, producers, and audiences have long recognized: pain. Whether it’s the larger pain of being a refugee or an enslaved person, or the smaller-scale pain of not fitting in, for a long time these were the only stories that got told. Or, rather, the only stories that got sold. Things are slowly changing. We’re creating new forms of currency in which our joy is as valuable as our suffering.
