Fanifesto for the Creators -Draft

Don’t take media without question. If you love something you don’t just have to accept it the way it is. Learn to acknowledge flaws without discounting the whole.

This is a ferocious love. Your favourite TV show is not in a museum, it is not meant to be preserved in its original condition. Tear it off its white pedestal. GUT IT. This is a ferocious love.

Diversify! You don’t need to cater to the general public. You aren't constricted by networks, regulations, ratings or even physics. Stop passively accepting media laced with white-washed, hetero-normative, sexist content and fight back. Change it. Make it your own.

Do you see yourself represented? The world has infinite variety that the media does not reflect. Change this.

You love it, so take it. Make it your own.

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