Both Hall and hooks discuss the cost of using the lives of others, for both of them, their sisters, in their scholarship for the benefit of their own self-enlightenment. How do we negotiate writing about experiential encounters, especially when the language we use to tell our stories might not be accessible to all or invite a response from those we write about?
Later, hooks mentions that there are multiple spaces for discourse beyond dry, academic texts. Hall agrees and says “There are other things to do. It is more that there is a privileging of a certain kind of work, a certain kind of writing, a certain mode of address to people” (111). I’m curious about what ya’ll are reading, listening to, or how you’re engaging with different ways of knowing beyond the academy. :-)
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