An Arizona State University poetry event featuring author Jenny Irish has ignited controversy due to her comments about a “dying human species” and the potential for “forced breeding camps.” Critics have accused Irish of promoting misinformation and conspiracy theories, while supporters defend her work as speculative fiction.
Where is the media to call this out as misinformation and conspiracy theories ? Oh right. They only do that with Republicans.“So much of our reality points toward those futures,” Hatch said. The event featured Irish’s poetry collection Hatch.
“Dismantle capitalism” and “elect a female president,” Irish said when prompted with a question about how to protect abortion. “The prose poems in Jenny Irish’s newest collection, Hatch, trace the consciousness of an artificial womb that must confront the role she has played in the continuation of the dying of the human species,” theThe description continues to say that Irish’s poetry interprets the meaning of motherhood.
“Working with avant strategies, Irish crafts a speculative feminist narrative, excavating and reexamining the aspects of the American experience that should have served as a call to action but have not,” it says. “Part elegy and part prophecy, Hatch warns of a possible future while speaking to the present moment.”reported, Irish elaborated on what she means by “possible future” and “speaking to the present moment.
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