Checking all the Progressive boxes is not more important than doing something raw, and honest, and true.
It’s possible for something to not jibe with the current social justice discourse consensus, and still be brilliant, and beautiful, and valuable.
Do not measure artistic quality by how closely it aligns to the latest political vocabulary pack. Get over rough language. Move past being anxious about speaking to everybody–it’s hard enough to truly speak to yourself.
It’s braver to be deeply honest about one facet of the world than it is to try and get nothing wrong about everything.
I feel like there’s something coming, some idea I’ve been groping towards for months. Feeling around the edges until I find enough of a grip to heave it up out of the mud.