Damon Young (writer)

thumb|Young in 2019 Damon Young (born 1979) is an American writer and editor. …You have to intentionally seek out community. You have to intentionally seek out spaces that are comfortable, that are welcoming. And I think that intentionality just bleeds into the work of people who are from Pittsburgh. It's not a place where you could just laze into blackness. You have to be hyper-cognizant of it… On Blackness in the city of Pittsburgh in “Writer Damon Young On Being Black And The Absurdity Of It All” in NPR (2019 Apr 4) I have a deep fear of hurting people…I don’t want to be seen as this kind of person. I don’t want my work to be seen as this type of work. On the backlash he faced after writing a controversial article about sexual harassment in “White People Often Don’t See Damon Young. That’s About to Change.” in Mother Jones (March/April 2019) I’m not this MFA or this academic. I didn’t come through a New York Times or New Yorker pipeline or whatever. I started a blog…Now I’ve written for some of those publications I’ve named, but I wasn’t brought up and groomed that way. Since I haven’t been, it would be fraudulent for me to try to be less accessible just because … that’s just not me. On remaining authentic despite having more writing opportunities in “Damon Young on How to Make It as a Writer in the 2020s: "Move to Pittsburgh" in Inverse (2019 Jun 4) Many cities are predominantly white in America, many larger cities; but with Pittsburgh, the whiteness there is a bit thicker, that it’s almost atmospherically white, spiritually white… On the racial makeup of Pittsburgh in “Damon Young on How to Make It as a Writer in the 2020s: "Move to Pittsburgh" in Inverse (2019 Jun 4) External links Category: African Americans Category: Authors from the United States Category: Editors from the United States Category: 1979 births Category: Living people Category:People from Pittsburgh