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Isn't something writers can really control. (Also I learnt a couple of years ago that both my parents have eaten dog meat and I found the stories hilarious, but awkward to tell in a Western setting ... )
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Jeannette Ng 吳志麗
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I just posted "on identity, performing marginalisations and the limitations #ownvoices; or why I can't just repeat my uncle's favourite joke about eating dogs"
link.medium.com/OYULTq5Zz3
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Zen Cho
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I think your concluding point about its being a systemic issue is a crucial one: writers put a lot of pressure on themselves but ultimately you can only tell the story that's yours to tell. The publishing machine picking out the stories that suit dominant culture's purposes...
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Jeannette Ng 吳志麗
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When I was ten, my relatives took me to a restaurant that specialised in purportedly endangered animals and they thought their Very Cunning Con was *hilarious*. For years afterwards they'd tease me about how I went from being an animal lover to loving to eat animals.
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Jeannette Ng 吳志麗
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The lack of control is.... terrifying but goes with the ground. We can overthink this even if obviously you can tell I come from the I CAN SOLVE THIS WITH MY MIND school of worrying.
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