Tag: real experiences
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DC Free School: Activists Writing Truthful Fiction About Activists
Workshop presented by Juliana Barnet Mainstream fiction—including movies, plays and TV, as well as books—tends to erase social justice activists. If we do appear, we’re often depicted us as cold-hearted, silly, dogmatic, extremist, neglectful mothers, and so forth. Being stereotyped and marginalized, whether consciously or not, hurts us as people and hinders our work. We…