Representation isn’t just about visibility. Shootings remind us it’s about life and death
LA Times“Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?” In a single line from the final song of “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda nails the cultural struggle of our age. The guy, in Baker’s perversely sympathetic words, was having a “really bad day.” As this story was stoking outrage, smaller media controversies were percolating into clearer context. Books Tracy Quan: Don’t forget — the Georgia shootings are a hate crime against sex workers Tracy Quan, a novelist and an advocate for sex workers, urges more focus on American “puritanism” as an underlying cause of the Atlanta-area spa killings. In the last week, I’ve been thinking about the immigrant workers in Martyna Majok’s plays, the house cleaners, caregivers and sweatshop drones of “Ironbound,” “Cost of Living” and “Queens.” And I’ve been haunted by what happened to playwright David Henry Hwang, who included in his book for “Soft Power” his experience of being stabbed while carrying groceries near his Brooklyn home. But now, the ballot box has given power to those whose America no longer includes people like me.” Under Donald Trump’s presidency, the forces of hate were abetted for short-term political gain.
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