Unchaste Samiya Bashir and Others Wrote about Literary Activism

Samiya writes, “Literary activism, to me, looks like opportunity. Looks like loving attention, like curiosity, like inquiry. Looks like the supportive sharing of eyes, ears, hands, minds, hearts, and tools. Looks like being willing to be wrong, to be outdated, to be educated, to learn something new from someone different and strange. There are so many important voices who never get the chance to find their greatness, shut down as they are by the insistence upon a dominant aesthetic even when we all know that mimicry can be deadly.”

Click the link to read more by her and other distinguished writers.

These words are important. This work is important.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2015/08/what-is-literary-activism/