Comments on: Report of LGBT writing workshop in Chennai: July 21-22, 2012 https://new2.orinam.net/lgbt-writing-workshop-in-chennai-july-21-22-2012/ Hues may vary but humanity does not. Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:55:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7 By: Andy Silveira https://new2.orinam.net/lgbt-writing-workshop-in-chennai-july-21-22-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-1770 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:55:36 +0000 https://new2.orinam.net/?p=7242#comment-1770 In reply to kinsey3.

Sure! I’ve already asked her for the same and will get back to you.

]]> By: kinsey3 https://new2.orinam.net/lgbt-writing-workshop-in-chennai-july-21-22-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-1769 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:02:57 +0000 https://new2.orinam.net/?p=7242#comment-1769 Andy, is there any chance you could request your friend who is pursuing Creative Writing to try and obtain the syllabus/curriculum of that course you were talking about, and share it with us at https://new2.orinam.net/contact?
Thanks a bunch!

]]> By: Andy Silveira https://new2.orinam.net/lgbt-writing-workshop-in-chennai-july-21-22-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-1768 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 02:56:18 +0000 https://new2.orinam.net/?p=7242#comment-1768 Aniruddhan, thanks for sharing the report on the writing workshop. It seems you all have had a very fruitful and fun-filled experience. I recently got to know through a friend of mine who is doing her MA in Creative Writing that there is a course on ‘writing for human rights’ in some college in England. Though we’d hardly ever get a chance to attend such a course, it’s interesting how specialized training courses get and to examine ways of how to approach and engage with such kind of texts. Of late, I’ve been particularly interested in examining certain ethical questions that arise while writing personal narratives. Is it right to share personal and private experiences in a public space, particularly when it involves other people who would not want to be represented in a text? Furthermore, in this scenario, how does the writer weigh her/his options, with the intensity of the issue on one hand and the problem of representing others, on the other? How does the writer ensure that s/he has taken a politically correct and reasonably objective stance? Given the nature of such writing, where there is a lot of involvement with the issue at a personal, social and political level, how does a writer maintain her/his distance from what s/he is stating?

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