The room erupted in applause as a student took the woman’s place at the front of the room and said, “Thank you very much, Professor Colette.” Taiye’s eyebrows shot up. Of course, the woman who’d incited that visceral pull in her gut was a fucking professor. “And thank you to the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology for organizing this conference. My name is Amara Patrick, and I’ll start this presentation with a clip from a short doc titled Come from Away, Who Gets to Stay.” The student gestured to the white projection screen behind her. “This project is part of my research on
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