“as researchers, creative writers, intellectuals, artists, we do not only produce artifacts. For better and for worse, we produce and reproduce social relations and forms of life.
When we tell our stories and receive the stories of others, whatever we do with them—whether we honor or ignore them, understand or misinterpret or erase them—we are building collective spaces. We do and undo ways of being with ourselves, with others, with the natural world, with our social and institutional contexts.”
~ Jean Emily Tan