May 23, 2023
it is not merely a question of whether or not we have learned to analyze in particular kinds of ways, or whether people are able to intellectualize about a variety of experiences. It is also about coming to believe in the possibility of a variety of experiences, a variety of ways of understanding the world, a variety of frameworks of operation, without imposing consciously or unconsciously a notion of norm - Elsa Barkley Brown
#school readings#but like it feels relevant to the conversations i feel like i have on here#about whether or not characters are good or bad#or whether or not they are redeemed#and about the right way to read texts#and the right way to write stories#and like multiple things can be true at once#every situation is made up of different people coming from different places who are effected differently#and most of the time there are not absolute villains and absolute heroes#depending on your experience of the world#depending on your framework#your hero might be someone else's villain#or vice versa#it is all so messy#and you need to be able to hold multitudes in your head#to see humanity as a kaleidoscope not a window#or a mirror#i might have lost this metaphor#tedtalk over#soph rambles#text post#quote#wow fully misattributed that quote by accident because i am a terrible academic#i have fixed it now#from a paper by joy parr but she is quoting brown#no one cares probably but i do#my bad ELSA