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The Honest Perspective Weekly Prompt — 21st- 27th April
Facing the blank page together
Whether the ideas have slowed to a trickle or you’re just feeling curious and in the mood for a little reflection. Our weekly prompt is an invitation to ruminate on an idea and see what arises.
Be it poetry or prose you’d like to submit to us, or a journal entry for your eyes only, take a moment to pause at some point during your week and set your pen free.
This week I’d like to ask you for your opinions on a subject I’ve long debated… is there a separation between writer and words once they are published and out in the world?
The recent ruling on womanhood in the UK has brought the debate back into my mind as my feed is flooded (again) with memes and angry venting about JK Rowling and her role in the treatment of trans people and public discourse around trans rights, but she is not the only problematic writer.
Roald Dahl has been brought up numerous times in some of the home education groups I’m a part of, as a purveyor of misogyny and prejudice, creating writing that we are potentially harming our children by exposing them to.
No doubt their our countless others, when you think that the cultural values and beliefs that existed in decades past will be reflected in the…
