Reading Ethically

If at some point, as you read, you think “this isn’t for me, I can’t take this up,” you may be right, but that response does not foreclose the invitation to keep reading. It is an occasion to ask what is happening between yourself and the text. Reading ethically can mean refusing to read as a form of Extraction, though academia has trained us to do so.

One of the best methodological frameworks I’ve seen for reading with humility is Joe Dumit’s (unmarked) “How I Read.”