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There Is No Single Story That Will Do The Work

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There Is No Single Story That Will Do The Work

Why "light," "dark," and other simple categories shouldn't be the metric by which we judge queer stories.

Ada Hoffmann
Aug 9, 2022
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There Is No Single Story That Will Do The Work

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Sometimes when writer social media starts going back and forth about what kind of stories are best - dark edgy ones, or hopeful gentle ones; stories that sound the alarm about a social problem, stories that offer a solution, or stories that help us to forget our problems entirely - I start wondering if we've forgotten Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's classic talk, "The Danger of a Single Story."

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