The Phantom Steps Forward
“Everyone” must also include the person who asks an uncomfortable question. The person who wants her work to be recognised. The person who is trying to build a future here.
“Everyone” must also include the person who asks an uncomfortable question. The person who wants her work to be recognised. The person who is trying to build a future here.
Coming second after an eight-year head start is an unusual basis for a victory speech. A reflection on what happens when generosity becomes an entitlement, someone else’s work becomes an institutional achievement, and the language of human flourishing provides remarkably good cover for making its structurally-vulnerable author disappear.