Creators sometimes justify graphic, troubling scenes with the claim that we need to see to ‘understand.’ Well, do we?
Do we really need to see graphic violence to ‘understand’?
Tag: suicide
YA Is Not A Guidebook to Self-Harm, Teen Sex, or Anything Else
Discussing the slew of concerntrolling editorials about how YA is destroying the world, a radio producer recently asked me if I thought YA acts like a user guide to self-harm and other potentially destructive, harmful, or socially undesirable behaviours. It’s a point that gets brought up a lot in these op-eds, and my response, as […]
Wriggly Tangerines
Forrest Wilder at the Texas Observer: The BP Screw-Up We Almost Didn’t Hear About If the most-hated corporation in America releases a massive quantity of toxic chemicals and nobody hears about it does it matter? Nicholas Riccardi at the Los Angeles Times: Fleeing Phoenix out of fear of immigration law “The business is broken,” said […]
Domesticating the Monster/The Dragon in my Belly
Content note: This post contains discussions of suicide, self harm, and depression. I dreamt that I was dreaming/I was wired to a clock/I tinkle by the minute Hey/tick tock tick tick tock I can’t remember the first time that I wanted to kill myself. I know it was a long time ago, longer ago than […]