All posts in "empathy"

On Love and Shame and Empathy and Resistance

Feb 17, 2017

1. My entire life I have been trying to get my head around how loving someone does not necessarily mean empathizing with him. How loving often means silencing not yourself but a part of your beloved. One thought this leads to is that love is cultural. How we love, and...

CW Workshop & Trump: Ellis Avery on the Imagination

Nov 11, 2016

This is the first of possibly a series of posts on teaching creative writing and the election. I've been thinking about how the classroom feels like the most productive space right now and wondering whether it's because the classroom, the workshop, is a place where...