We have witnessed what happens when uncomfortable truths are censored — particularly when voiced by artists, intellectuals and academics — too many times historically.  We have seen where the attempt to silence dissent from dominant discourses leads us.  We must not make the same mistake. 

In order to do this we need to look at what it takes to be a writer, and admit that some writers advantage from a ridiculous amount of privilege, while upholding several myths around being a writer – myths that help us all pretend that the writing world has an open-door policy, even as it shuts the majority of people out.