Why is it an accepted notion that with making good art comes self-sacrifice?
Performers and artists are experiencing exploitation and inequality at the hands of a myth our society needs to stop following, says Stephanie Street. Photo: Arturo Larrahondo/Shutterstock
We call ourselves liberal, yet there is an unspoken assumption that in order to make art of any worth, we must endure pain, says Stephanie Street in response to a recent account of a performer who funded their festival show with sex work
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