Who’s afraid of Kathleen Hale

When you start writing professionally, namely about yourself, people don%u2019t really tell you that putting that kind of work out into the world can feel dangerous. Dangerous to your sense of safety, dangerous to your sense of self, to your relationships, and perhaps even to any potential future career. Write the wrong thing %u2014 and here, wrong can mean anything from merely obnoxious to cruel or racist or wildly incorrect or otherwise offensive %u2014 and it%u2019s easy to be misunderstood, or eviscerated online, or fully canceled, whether for good reason or not.