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Even Great Journalism Isn’t Enough To Fully Understand #MeToo. We Need Fiction.

ISSUES Posted: February 25, 2020 9:01 am

“It’s a truism to say our society doesn’t do well when faced with competing stories about what happened; that’s what ‘he said/she said’ has become a shorthand for. … To overcome that reflex, … we need to practice on something with lower stakes than the literal lives of accusers and accused. We need Me Too fiction and metatexts that help us understand this problem outside of a news cycle. And recently, we’ve been getting them.” – Slate

ISSUES Published: 02.20.20

Read the story in Slate Published: 02.20.20

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