Poets Mixed Media

05/30/2023

05/24/2023

"If only we built gyms for kindness, where we worked on our compassion, our empathy, our patience, along with our bodies."--Marlon Brando

05/23/2023

An interesting (and refreshing) take on cultural appropriation and the burning question today: who has the right to tell a story?

In her interview with for The Guardian, The author of , , says it's the wrong question to ask:

“We’re storytellers, and the point of storytelling is, among other things, to imagine outside of your lived experience and empathise with people who are not you, and to ideally write truthfully, and with compassion, a whole range of characters,” ...

While some concerns about the “permission to speak” come from desires to support underrepresented authors, Kuang thinks it “usually gets wielded as a double-edged sword against marginalised writers, to pigeonhole them into only writing about their marginalised experiences. And I hate this. It really functions as another form of gatekeeping.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/20/rebecca-f-kuang-who-has-the-right-to-tell-a-story-its-the-wrong-question-to-ask?utm_term=6469c17386bac9427580944744a8948a&utm_campaign=Bookmarks&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=bookmarks_email

05/23/2023

"We have art in order not to die of truth" — Friedrich Nietzsche