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Writing Thru Race was a three-day conference of Indigenous writers and writers of colour, held in Vancouver in 1994 and sponsored by the Writers' Union of Canada. The organizers' decision to limit attendance at daytime events to Indigenous writers and writers of colour only led to a controversy in the Canadian media and a debate over the conference's public funding in Canada's House of Commons. This led the Canadian Department of Heritage to revoke its promise of $22 500 of funding for the conference on the grounds that the event excluded white writers. The conference went ahead as planned, raising the lost funds from private sources. Writing Thru Race is now considered a milestone in terms of race politics and cultural production in Canada.

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