![]() And ready to fight for it.īut what are the tools that will help us imagine a future beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, beyond the racialized divisions threatening to tear our very society apart? Among the other liberatory theories and practices at our disposal, there is a critical role for an unexpected revolutionary force: children’s literature. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice…Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. In a 2020 essay called “The Pandemic Is a Portal,” novelist and activist Arundhati Roy wrote, ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |