Archive For The “Erasure as Violent” Category
My mom is a writer. A couple years ago, at a literary event, she found herself talking to a women who working in marketing for one of the top publishing houses in the country. They got to talking about the unique challenges women face in the publishing world. Some of those challenges – like the VIDA count, or how a…
In her widely influential collection of essays, On Photography, Susan Sontag writes: To photograph is to confer importance. There is probably no subject that cannot be beautified; moreover, there is no way to suppress the tendency inherent in all photographs to accord value to their subjects (28). Whatever the FSA’s political motives, it is hard…