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Blog pertaining to Remembered Raptured "Class and the Politics of Writing"

This chapter of Remembered Raptured brought up a point I never thought about. When you read a personal or autobiographial piece you often do not think about how writing about personal issues effects that being's family. Your family's reputation can be altered in a negative way depending on what  personal topics were shared. This author wanted to publish her writing but it was not meant to put a target on her family's back or to blame an individual. After reading this chapter I so happened to watch a video on Youtube that also relates to this fear of publicizing personal information. A girl on youtube was talking about how she copes with her anxiety and where her anxiety came from. The girl talks about her parents divorce but she decided not to go in to full detail because she wanted to respect her parents. I immediately thought of how much of an issue this could be. People want to be open with their audiences but they would be putting their family lives at risk. Issues like these exist in author's lives and could even be related to those who share their lives with us on reality t.v. shows.