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Amanda Choo Quan
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Contributor, Freelance
Los Angeles, Tobago
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Biography
Amanda Choo Quan is a Trinidadian-Jamaican writer and activist. She won the 2020 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize—one of the region's most significant for emerging writers. Focusing on race, displacement and her homeland, her work appears in Harper’s Bazaar, Caribbean Beat, Callaloo, Entropy, and WORDPEACE. Choo Quan has been awarded scholarships, fellowships and residencies from Callaloo, the Truman Capote Foundation, Juniper, and the Cropper Foundation. In 2018, after graduating from an MFA in Creative Writing at CalArts, she became a REEF Artist-in-Residence. Working with Los Angeles’ literary community, she staged events prioritising writers of colour. Currently, Amanda is based in her home country of Trinidad and Tobago, where she worked as head of communications of the UN Refugee Agency’s country office. In collaboration with the Bocas Lit Fest, she has also co-produced and hosted a podcast aimed at connecting new Caribbean writers to agents and editors overseas.
Caribbean art, literature, Caribbean culture race, Caribbean music, Black historyRefugees, politics, identity the Global South, Blackness, displacement
Content
By Amanda Choo Quan| Teen Vogue Verified “We’re producing 100 billion pieces of clothing a year,” explains Katrina Caspelich, executive director and chief marketing officer of Remake, an organization that advocates for garment worker protections and against overconsumption. “We don’t need to be doing that. Everything…that you could need has probably already been made.” And yet, we keep buying more. Though COVID curtailed our buying, after the height of the pandemic Americans are actually increasing their spending on clothing.
By Amanda Choo Quan| Yahoo Verified Jens Kalaene/picture alliance via Getty Images“We’re producing 100 billion pieces of clothing a year,” explains Katrina Caspelich, executive director and chief marketing officer of Remake, an organization that advocates for garment worker protections and against overconsumption. “We don’t need to be doing that. Everything…that you could need has probably already been made.” And yet, we keep buying more. Stay up-to-date with the politics team. Sign up for the Teen Vogue Take.
By Amanda Choo Quan| Teen Vogue Verified The year was 2018. Trump was in the White House. I'd come to LA to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. I am not American — a fact I felt acutely, given the period's political context. I felt alienated, and ashamed to express it, because my accent marked me as a member of a country likely to be classified as a “shithole.” Despite this, I earned an art residency at a sleek, multi-story downtown building.
Company Info
Freelance
Freelancer.com is the largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace in the world, connecting over 81 million employers and freelancers across more than 247 countries. Founded in 2009 and based in Sydney, Australia, the platform allows employers to post jobs while freelancers can bid on these projects. It is publicly traded on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ticker ASX:FLN. The platform supports a variety of work categories, including software development, writing, design, and marketing. Freelancer.com also offers contests for creative work, where employers can award prize money to winning entries. Users can choose from different membership plans, including free and paid subscriptions, which provide various benefits. The mobile app enhances project management and communication for users on the go. With a diverse customer base that includes individuals, small businesses, and large enterprises, Freelancer.com plays a significant role in the global online economy.
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