The Collection
Stories travel farther than people can. The Collection follows where they lead.
Growing up inside high-control religion meant inheriting stories about people long before meeting them. Representation became the place where many of us met them for the first time.
These essays explore what happened when those inherited stories gave way to real human lives. Together, they build the case that representation saves lives by replacing inherited stories with human ones.
A collection of Representation Saves Lives essays about media representation and storytelling.
The Aperture of Grief
Remembering Dolly, Tim and the grief that shapes how we experience them now I’ve spent the last week watching movies and shows I haven’t had occasion to watch or revisit. But the recent deaths of celebrities brought them to the forefront of my mind. Losing Dolly Parton, Tim Curry and Peter Cullen in the same week has me considering what their…
Certainty vs. Consideration
How do we find ourselves in a world that was never allowed to be ours? How do we respect a humanity we were taught needed to change? We listen to their stories. And we let ourselves linger with the personhood represented. Learning to see people Coming out of evangelicalism can be a strange and lonely place because everything we were taught…
Representation Saves Lives: A Window into Another Life
What is Representation Saves Lives? What do I mean when I say representation saves lives? When we have variety in our media representation it’s more than just getting to see ourselves. Seeing fictional stories that have people we aren’t used to seeing can expand our imagination of what humanity is. When you’re raised like I was, you are not given access…
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