#humanacts — Public Fediverse posts

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> I told myself this next novel would look squarely at Gwangju..[not] consigning it to a.. layer. I obtained a book containing more than 900 testimonials, and every day for nine hours over the course of a month, I read each account.. Then I read up on not just #Gwangju but other cases of state violence. Then, looking even farther afield and back in time, I read about #MassKillings that humans have.. perpetrated throughout the world and throughout history.
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> What international audiences and readers are seeing is not the violence of Korea. Korea is merely a window that illuminates the universality of violence and the universal violence of the modern world.
> To talk of violence is not only to act as a witness of history or a whistleblower of reality. Within that story is the power to move reality through healing.

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