The Best Thing You Can Do with Freedom of Speech is Shut Up and Listen – Alexandra Fuller (Podcast)

Alexandra Fuller, author of Leaving Before The Rains Come, recently spoke at an event at the Seattle Public Library.

In the podcast, Fuller says this book, her fourth, is the most scary to speak about because it is about her. In her first two books, Fuller wrote about her mother. Throwing her mother’s character under the bus in public was much more gratifying than being honest about her own flaws.

Fuller also speaks about her experience of growing up in Southern Africa, with all the undeserved privilege being white brought. She says she realised her privilege when she landed in America, and what it was like to discover freedom of expression in there. She says that one of the best things you can do with freedom of speech is “shut up and listen.”
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