What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

Jewish tumblr, a question:

As a teenager, I wrote a poem in response to hearing about something awful that happened to my grandmother’s Jewish neighbour, who was in Belsen. Would it be disrespectful to share that poem now? I’m aware that I’m writing outside my experience and don’t want to appropriate a narrative that doesn’t belong to me, but with everything that’s happening now, I keep thinking about that poem and how I felt when I wrote it.    

  1. tinyattacksquid said: Just one voice, but personally I think that would be fine, as long as you put a note with the info from this post – that it’s a real story but not your family’s.
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