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A feminism that denounced, that punished, was starting to feel like a trap.
When someone says we ought to separate the art from the artist, they’re saying: Remove the stain. Let the work be unstained. But that’s not how stains work.
Everything is everyone’s business—there’s a market for every piece of information, just as (not coincidentally) there’s a market for every kind of porn.
The liberal fantasy of effortless enlightenment simply assumes we’re getting better all the time. But how on earth can we improve unless we listen to people saying what’s wrong?
Institutional presence matters. Taking up space in cultural institutions is meaningful, whether that’s as an artist or as an administrator.
The male changes only when forced to do so by technology, when he has no choice, when ‘society’ reaches the stage where he must change or die.
