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When spell check doesn’t recognize your name

By Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Essays, Marginalia | Columbus Park, spell check, women of color
October 8, 2015

To read Rowan’s comic, click images to enlarge, and click through all three panels.

I love spell check. I love my computer. I used the Internet to talk to the wonderful women mentioned here. We met on a Facebook group for women of color in comic books. But, I chose to talk about this issue in comic strip form because as I handwrote, it was relaxing not to wonder—have I been added to the system yet? Hopefully, this issue will be solved. Until then, I tell my squiggle that he’s only reminding me just how lucky I am to have this name.

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Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is an AAWW Margins Fellow. Her work has appeared in NPR’s Selected Shorts, Tin House’s Literary B-SIDES, Public Books & TriQuarterly.