Art Can Help Us Subvert Patriarchy
But only if we continue to fund it
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6 min readJul 12, 2019
Toni Morrison’s speech “The Habit of Art,” included in her book The Source of Self-Regard, references an event originally written about by an unnamed young reporter. It recounts the way that a group of Haitian citizens used theater to undermine the Tonton Macoute, a special operations unit within the Haitian paramilitary during Jean-Claude…
