"When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game done with mirrors. It takes some strength of soul…..and not just individual strength, but collective understanding ….to resist this void…and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard."
--Adrienne Rich
Adrienne is right. Every group of people, especially those who are discriminated against, need books, movies, music, art, etc that affirm their life experience.
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