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About cinna.mn

I created cinna.mn primarily to be a place where I (and others) can talk about the sometimes strange experience of being a person of color in Minnesota. While the Twin Cities area is known for its schizophrenic progressiveness, the fact of the matter is it’s still pretty damn white here.

And while that’s a rather specific topic, it speaks to the broader subject of identity. I identify as a few different things that fall into the minority. As such it’s entirely likely that I will wander off into issues of LGBT experience; issues relevant to gays, people of color, and gay people of color beyond the confines of Minnesota; and other elements of who I am and where I’m from.

My personal politics will be pretty obvious, but remember that others will express their opinions here and those opinions belong to the name they’re posted under. These can be touchy subjects. Let’s all be respectful. (I don’t really need to remind you of that, right? Y’all are grown-ass adults.)

About The Dish

The Dish was started ’round about the year 2001 by Ann Freeman and officially launched as a part of cinna.mn on Dec 1, 2008.

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