it seems p. basic though that like - if we’re not talking about Authors, it’s obvious that the knowledge & discourse that we’ll get by engaging with POC, trans women, blah blah - ghouls of ‘identity politics’ - is gonna be an utterly different & radically important Knowledge anyway that cannot possibly be tapped into any other way than coming out of that Experience - like, that’s sort of the point of a lot of the talk about Lived Experience? Like, that there is a Knowledge which cannot arise out of anywhere else.

Like, I mean, I don’t know nearly enough about it (I haven’t read Barthes or Foucault yet) but it just seems so utterly daft to insist that white authors can write as good on race than non-white authors, even if the Author is dead.