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First Draft - Tsering Yangzom Lama

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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Are You a Writer or an Activist?

i'm a writer because i think my love of books came first get out. Like in latin america, a lot of writers have a political perspective and express that with pride. In tibet, writers are some of the most oppressed, the most targeted. And even tobetn writers in exile, ah, face a lot of pressure. You know, if you want to express yourself freely, you often come up against authoritarian powers. Free expression is itself thret to authoritarian powers, to autocratic governments. I think everybody has politics. Other places in the world embrace that more freely than perhaps in wod in the west. This is only a a that only reveals something about

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