Her feedback focuses on the Let’s just assume it was a blackboard line. That actually feels huge to me, she writes. It’s intensely resonant and important. Seems too easily won for such a major point—and one that really seems to be the underlying question of the project: Who gets to tell which story by what authority and with what significance and effect? Sarah is right. Interviewing Mark, I risk giving him too much authority, allowing him, inviting him to shape the narrative. But by interviewing him, I also can invert the power dynamic. By attempting to answer why he assaulted me, he’ll
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