*Reads the entirety of Tom's apology* O.O Thank you for linking that. It really wasn't what I expected to see when I clicked on the link. This is such a complicated issue--particularly when I went back and read one of Amina's posts and was shocked by how powerful her voice is. There is some very beautiful, insightful writing here... and it is really, utterly different in tone, style, and even in its sense of maturity in how she presents herself, versus how MacMaster presents himself, when he speaks in "his own" voice.
I suppose there are notes also of the value that can be gained from work that turns out to be a "hoax." This personally reminds me in a way of a Holocaust memoir that was lauded by other Holocaust survivors and writers and the wider community as being a profound piece of work, so true to the experiences of the camps...except it was later revealed to be a "hoax"...but at the same time, the situation was complicated because the writer really did seem to believe, sincerely believe, that his accounts were true? Complicated stuff all around.
And with the Amina situation, there's also the perspective of the multiple community, the way that experience may resonate with experiences of multiplicity, but at the same time how hard that can be to argue for should you attempt to do so.
And then there's that business with MacMaster, how he handled the situation.
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Thank you for linking that. It really wasn't what I expected to see when I clicked on the link. This is such a complicated issue--particularly when I went back and read one of Amina's posts and was shocked by how powerful her voice is. There is some very beautiful, insightful writing here... and it is really, utterly different in tone, style, and even in its sense of maturity in how she presents herself, versus how MacMaster presents himself, when he speaks in "his own" voice.
I suppose there are notes also of the value that can be gained from work that turns out to be a "hoax." This personally reminds me in a way of a Holocaust memoir that was lauded by other Holocaust survivors and writers and the wider community as being a profound piece of work, so true to the experiences of the camps...except it was later revealed to be a "hoax"...but at the same time, the situation was complicated because the writer really did seem to believe, sincerely believe, that his accounts were true? Complicated stuff all around.
And with the Amina situation, there's also the perspective of the multiple community, the way that experience may resonate with experiences of multiplicity, but at the same time how hard that can be to argue for should you attempt to do so.
And then there's that business with MacMaster, how he handled the situation.
All this stuff just layered on top of each other.