So that's sensorial impulse is something that I absolutely have always associated with the right and with this particularly sanctimonious

element on the right that I find just repulsive and to see that coming now from like my side has been a trip and not in a good way.

Hello again from the tropical climate of Buenos Aires where I stand atop a roof overlooking the sprawling enterprise of this melting 40 degree or 100

degree if you're from the state's metropolis.

It's quite an extraordinary heat and an extraordinary place.

I'm out here for a couple of weeks visiting my girlfriend's family

and if you listen to last week's amazing episode with Sean

Williams I'm actually still just standing in the same rooftop and just recording

this next intro and outro for cats I'm showing you a little bit how the sausage is made, which might be intriguing for some people and might ruin the sort of Hollywood glamour of this podcast. But yes, my word there have been some great guests in recent

weeks, even though I am recording this now about a month or two before you'll actually

get it. I've been very lucky with who's come on and today is no exception.

It's Kat Rosenfeld, an acclaimed author of young adult and adult fiction who also writes about the

culture wars, politics and all sorts of on-point and contentious societal issues.

But what got Kat embroiled in this nether region betwixt young adult writer and political commentator, lies at the crux of this episode.

Feeling the claws of censorship closing in around the young adult fiction realm,

Kat popped her pen above the parapet in defiance.

She maintains that whether people really are cancelled or not, the actual cancel culture

is very real and that much of it festers in the circles of young adult fiction

where the intentions of authors are often ignored or picked apart in search of offense as fanciful as the fantasy literature that pervades the genre.

Things all came to a head in 2017 when the young adult industry lost their minds over a book called

the Black Witch, which imbued some of its badies with, well,

badty traits like racism in a stratified society. Such as the stringency of the self-appointed social media monitors that even to make the

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