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Write about Work, Read about Work

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New Episode: Scarborough Takes on Can-Lit

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New Episode: Where is Climate Change in Fiction?

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Check out this fabulous interview with the author Tash Aw over at @electricliterature In it he talks about writing and authenticity, being a child of immigrants in Malaysia and writing when your desired audience probably wont read it. https://electricliterature.com/why-arent-white-writers-asked-about-authenticity/ #books #author #writing #electricliterature #authenticity #immigrant #struggle #essays
Happy Labour Day Everyone! Writing fiction is labour, and authors are workers. On our podcast, we often find ourselves coming back to the issue of capitalism and its role in what we get to read, how stories end up getting told for consumption, and whose voices we don't get to hear. Publishing is an industry that marginalizes stories that are seen as not 'sellable', or that don't 'fit' the target audience which is largely white and middle-class. The lack of diversity in fiction writing is not because people don't want to write, it's a deliberate effect of capitalism and colonialism. Authors often work in poverty or under pressure to put out content just to pay the bills. And many end up being forced out. If creativity is a source of liberation, we have to include the struggle to liberate creativity. The stories are out there. #books #bookstagram #labourday #work #writingiswork #labour #liberatinglibraries #capitalism #colonialism #revolution #socialism #stories #workingclass
Just a snap of the bookshelf that got this whole thing started! We're a little (totally amateur) podcast about the role of fiction in transformational politics. Latest episode examines Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez and Brother by David Chariandy. Find us on your favourite podcasting app! Website link in bio. #liberation #books #fiction #transformation #struggle #liberatecreativity
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