Casey

Earworm

Happy Monday! I wrote a new, non-fiction interactive Twine piece called So You’ve Been Called Out. Here is my “artist’s statement” of sorts about it, directly from the piece itself:

I see people writing about “callout culture” a lot, and while a lot of digital ink seems to be spilled on scrutinising the behaviour of people who do the calling out, very little seems to get said about ways to constructively react when you are the recipient of a callout.

When we are called out for saying or doing something derogatory, dismissive, or otherwise hurtful towards a marginalised group of people, it can often be a hard pill to swallow, even if it is feedback that we desperately need to hear. I believe that if we can learn to take such criticism of our behaviour not as permanent indictments of character but as learning experiences, our communities will be stronger, healthier, and better at conflict resolution.