You Don’t Need to Post About Every Tragedy
We have learned to perform our grief in the public arena. But what if we have nothing constructive to say?
On February 23, I couldn’t have located Ukraine on a map. On February 24, it seemed I was expected to articulate my opinions on Vladimir Putin’s invasion of it. As a writer, I have enough of a public platform that I received a number of DMs demanding I write something about Ukraine. I didn’t know how to tell them that I had only just learned the political distinction between Kyiv and Kiev. I Googled Russia+Ukraine+conflict and How far does a nuclear bomb go? I knew I had nothing constructive to say.
Would it really be helpful for me to drown out the sound of the informed or the
