Oliver Fugler Quote

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“Many of our biggest blunders have occurred when trying to keep pace with the industry, when applying pressure that one or many of us can’t bear. Commonly, publishers are portrayed as deadline fiends, hounding willy-nilly artists for their work, and with any extra pressure on any one of the parties, the cycle stutters and heaves.

A disability justice lens, and its rhetorical influence on and co-creation with BIPOC and queer and trans communities, would have us all understand that that kind of pressure serves none of us, in the end. We are here, rather, to care about and for each other, and if it takes time and resources and adjustments, that’s not a barrier but rather the conditions that we must lovingly meet in order to live.”

― Oliver Fugler, from the Intro to Sharp Pink Claws: New Writing by Metonymy Press Authors, Vol. 2

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