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Ann Yap
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“I was ashamed. I wouldn’t be able to explain this properly to anyone. It had something to do with being seen. Everything was visible to them—swollen face, bloody arms, bloody legs, bloody clothes. These were the only things I was composed of, and everyone saw them—everyone understood them—as well as I could. It was a kind of nakedness, a feeling of nerve endings in the wind.”
― The Empathy Exams
― The Empathy Exams
“Why do I hunger for significant barometers but find myself tethered to banality instead?”
― The Empathy Exams
― The Empathy Exams
“When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.”
― The Empathy Exams
― The Empathy Exams
“How do we represent female pain without producing a culture in which this pain has been fetishized to the point of fantasy or imperative?”
― The Empathy Exams
― The Empathy Exams
“Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.”
― The Empathy Exams
― The Empathy Exams
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