Women Empowering Women
Art in itself is a reflection of the individual who creates it. While we can include certain exceptions, putting your name alongside a piece of work associates you with its contents. Whether it’s film or books, murals or singers, the artist will always have a meaning behind the images and narratives that they create. The…
This recognition is important, but I would like us to think a bit more critically about the ways in which we are perceived. For those of us with intersecting identities, the “male gaze” is far too limited a term to capture how we have been surveilled. So, I put to you: the white gaze.
Diverse representation does not equal accurate and equitable representation. Having diverse characters in literature is not enough when those characters are still being portrayed with stereotypes and harmful cliches, are token characters with no depth, or exist merely for trauma porn. This is where The Poet X comes in.