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When your past self becomes material for present creativity

I found my teenage diary from when my parents divorced and I want to turn it into a graphic novel but I don't know if that fourteen-year-old would consent to being art.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The ethics of self-excavation involve consent across time that cannot be given.

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