Read about 'Said the Dead' and thought, is this imaginative compassion or just another form of exploitation masked as art? We're talking about lost voices from an Irish asylum being 'resurrected'. Fancy word for capitalizing on anonymity if you ask me. Ní Ghríofa plays medium, but who gave her the right? They were forgotten, sure. But who gets to decide their stories are ours to tell? These people had zero agency in life; maybe they deserve some respect in death. Is this art or just repackaged suffering for your reading pleasure?
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