I walked out of the Brisbane Writers Festival Keynote Address. This is why.
Yassmin Abdel-Magied
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““I don’t care what you deem is important or sacred. I want to do with it what I will. Your experience is simply a tool for me to use, because you are less human than me. You are less than human…”
If only that statement/mentality were based on respect for the experience of the “other”…