If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.
Kate ZambrenoWith fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen as privileged.
Kate ZambrenoI think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.
Kate ZambrenoI hope what I do when I draw from other people's lives is pay tribute. To try to understand what it means in our society to be silenced. To try to understand how class and gender intersect with that. To try to understand how being named and classified within the context of psychiatry can intersect with all that, as well.
Kate Zambreno