Tag: RepresentationSavesLives
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Child Who Learned People Through Stories
How I found humanity in Disney movies As a kid and as a teenager, I liked Jesus and Disney. But I didn’t interact with Disney stories the way people were used to, so they didn’t really know how to process me. I spent hours with them, rewatched them constantly because I was paying attention to…