#lit posts

But I feel like to some extent they can be separated. as a reader/ consumer of media many things become much more than just a piece of an artist’s repertoire to me; the things you love start to mean different things to you based on which parts of yourself they stir. You draw meaning which the maker might not have intended, I know I do. Art is open to interpretation and thus the artist’s intention of it isn’t the only thing that matters. 

I think art is also about the viewer, listener, reader, beholder...and this goes for when something is co-opted by shitty people as well, like the ‘Peg The Patriarchy’ thing. 

This is not an excuse for supporting racially/bigotry-motivated things though. Absolutely not. Your private experience of a thing being something completely different to the norm and being positive doesn’t mean that the thing itself is positive.