When we engage in debate, it is important to acknowledge that our emotional responses come from our experiences and our origins. This reveals the need for empathy in understanding our differences not as an objective truth which only one has discovered but as co-existent interpretations that deserve understanding and compromise if we are ever to diverge from the hostility that seems to be the focus of much modern political discourse.
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“Comments, clichés, commentary, controversy… talk talk talk, it’s only talk!”...
Read MoreI had never realised how vast the qualities used to define your identity could be until we talked about positionality in class. How certain experiences, family legacies, and interests are stacked upon one another and used to...
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Friendships are complicated, full of conflict, love and, hopefully, lots of fun. They encouraged the sexual escapades of Percy Shelley and Lord Byron and the riotous drinking excursions of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tragically the relationships between literary women have been side-lined …
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Tension between the celebration and criticism of war is advanced by motives informed by oppositely different experiences of the same shared history. Especially in a multicultural society that has been framed by colonial values, such diversity is necessary to adequately represent minority perspectives within dominant institutions.
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