Sister Outsider | The Politics of Writing: Perspective, Privilege and Power

In this month’s column, Hana Riaz reflects on the politics of writing.

Writing is a painful process for me and it’s not because I write too much, too often or even enough. Similarly, it isn’t even the craft itself as someone that oscillates between wanting to create beautiful work that matters and producing work that instigates something necessary or urgent. Instead it is the responsibility as a writer in process, the weight of a tool that 1 in 5 adults globally don’t have access to (basic literacy rates, World Literacy Foundation).

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