Click here to read Hurston’s essay “How It Feels to be Colored Me.” Pay close attention to the rhetorical strategies that Hurston employs. Then, using Hurston’s essay as inspiration, write your own narrative essay filling in the blank “How it feels to be ___Gay(woman)__ me.”

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