I was invited on the Essence of Wonder podcast last weekend to participate in a very interesting and stimulating discussion about whether we should engage with the works of authors and creators who have expressed problematic viewpoints.

I really enjoyed the thoughtful conversation. It raised a lot of new ways to think about the issue for me. My position is most often that language has it’s own position apart from the author, and it’s the interpretive frame of the audience that either permits the material to be consumed or not. This is a result of how traumatizing it is to learn the author or creator’s viewpoint on social or political issues.

There should be links to the video of the episode behind the link up there. I detonated most of my social media, so I’m not sure. I couldn’t get the YouTube link to work but here’s a Facebook link!