The Dangerous Idea That Art Can Be Good or Bad

My daughter was 2-and-a-half when she lost her artistic innocence.

Darcy Reeder
Family Matters
Published in
3 min readMay 22, 2019

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Photo by Dani Aláez on Unsplash

My kid was practically still in diapers when one of her grandparents read her Giraffes Can’t Dance. This wildly popular children’s book centers on Gerald, a clumsy giraffe. He loves to dance, but when he dances, all the other animals laugh, “Because when it came to dancing

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Darcy Reeder
Family Matters

Empathy for the win! Published in Gen, Human Parts, Heated, Tenderly —Feminism, Sexuality, Veganism, Anti-Racism, Parenting. She/They