The Rumpus Interview with Maggie Nelson - The Rumpus
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The Rumpus Interview with Maggie Nelson - The Rumpus
"Doing the work that your parents then do for your spirit or for your character. But there’s an aspect of it that I like: It led me to think about what I do as a kind of two-way, generational reparenting. On the one hand, caring for these bygone thinkers, while at the same time imbuing the present generation with their hand-me-down wisdom and their... See more
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
Margaret Heffernan: Embracing Uncertainty and Creativity
Creativity and the Writing Process
Heffernan emphasizes collaboration and critique: “That dissent is absolutely fundamental to the creative process,” she notes, explaining how colleagues’ pushback can turn a raw idea into something “marvelous” .
She argues that supportive environments spark crea
When these narrative shifts occur among communities and groups of people, new potentials arise. People are capable of taking actions that defy systems of oppression and popular expectations. But to ready people for such moments, we must do more than raise the alarm about injustice.
Kelly Hayes • Let This Radicalize You
If you write to please others, you are selling out. You are in the process of audience capture. This way of talking, which is how the fear in me talks, is common—as if writing for an audience and writing for yourself are at odds with each other. I really used to feel like that.
But I no longer think that it is quite right. The relationship between c... See more
But I no longer think that it is quite right. The relationship between c... See more