Quick clips from the Slippery Issue

by Various

Part 1: Too slick for their own good

I just don’t like the feeling of being played. Or that I’m playing with someone else’s emotions. – Laurel Hoffmann, NGO communications staff

The ideas I have consumed and produced . . . tend to put privileged people centre stage. – Nate Buchanan

The war metaphor has served the cancer industry at the expense of prevention. – Sandra Malasky

I . . . only use the very best quotes: the desperation, the aspiration, the praise for rich church folk with big pocket books and unwavering faith. – Stephanie Tombari, NGO communications staff

If I give up on a fixation with the idea of purity . . . I have less fear about pushing up against the world with my foolishness. – Miriam Meinders

I realized that humanitarian subject matter didn’t make a film immune to manipulation. – Andrea Palpant Dilley

Part 2: The rigour of the grey

We sat under the yellowing grapevines, golden in the middays of Autumn when the air was clear and cool. She smoked Marlboro Lights, which all the aid workers smoke. – Phil Sparrow, former aid worker in Afghanistan

Ads are simple, reality is complex. – Josiah Neufeld

The sign of a healthy society is when we have the mystics, who enable us to imagine a world outside of ourselves, and the satirists who keep us honest with our feet on the ground. – Becky Garrison, Christian satirist

Political correctness is a bit like the cork in a wine bottle – a very small thing behind which lies a whole body of analysis. – Miriam Meinders

While some say [hope] is all we have, a few crusty dissenters think it should be excised from the discourse. – Eds.

Critics have argued that the photograph of suffering reduces its subjects to objects, exploits them as spectacles, freezes rather than alters power dynamics, and even re-violates the victims. – Susie Linfield

Part 3: Responding to spin

Let us help each other look away. – Natalie Boustead

The possibility that something might be offensive is not necessarily the best standard for evaluating its merit. – Kurt Armstrong

I’m in no rush to have Big Bird or any other media industry creations become my children’s
branded pals. – Ariah Fine

I like how books require something of us – specifically time and attention – rather than trying to quickly sneak into our brains when we are not watching. – Shannon Blake

Perhaps this is the hope: that poetry, by its nature, will never become leashed to profit, marketing, consumerism. – Adrienne Rich

Instead of making hard and deliberate choices about what I believe or don’t believe in regard to these ancient Biblical texts . . . I simply let the words wash over me. – Paula Huston

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