How privileged is it to seek endless refuge from the horrors around us by choosing "brain-off" books? To oversaturate yourself to one or two genres, full of recycled tropes and predictable endings? To voluntarily disengage from our communities? There is a lot of privilege in choosing to not
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Marginalized communities do not have the luxury to choose to escape through shallow, vapid books. Yes, reading can be comforting and entertaining,
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."
– César A. Cruz