2026 Conference Schedule

Increasingly, literature written about marginalized groups to which the author does not belong is called out as inauthentic and exploitative. This backlash is often justified. But what do we lose if authors (both of minority and majority groups) write only from the lens of their public positionality? On this panel, authors, editors, and critics explore these issues and discuss a framework for writing (or not writing) experiences stemming from an identity that is not the author’s own.