This is interesting

[avevale_intelligencer]

After my post below about whether it's helpful to tell writers what they should and shouldn't write, programme makers who they should and shouldn't cast, and so on, it was interesting to follow cherylmmorgan's link to this post by Amanda Palmer.

It's nothing to do with racism in itself, but these lines in the middle provide another angle:

i should be allowed to write about, sing about, joke about anything that moves me.
so should you. so should everyone.

an artist’s (and a human being’s) freedom to do that, without fear of retribution, is the cornerstone of what keeps the world moving forward, not backwards, not standing still.

And:

in art, everything must be fair game, everything must be explorable, everything must be speakable, or we go BACKWARDS! we go DOWN!

I'm sure she wasn't thinking about racially offensive portrayals of minority characters when she wrote that. But it's interesting, isn't it?

Comments

[batyatoon]

I've only just recently encountered the work of Amanda Palmer, and she's marvelous.

And I'd agree with what she says here, with the minor caveat that without fear of retribution should not translate to without fear of vehement criticism.