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Quite the surreal experience, attending a law conference. I presented a paper which was a collaboration with Dr Hannah Baumeister. (We became friends after I worked as her research assistant on the Drawing on Forced Marriage: Teaching Tough Topics Through Comics project.) Our paper (‘Fatal Words of Consent’: On Marriage and the Law in Wilkie
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I think I know what you think I’m going to say. I’m going to tell you about the studies that show that reading fiction increases compassion and empathy for others. By reading literature, you are given access to the lived experiences of diverse people: characters from different cultures, body types, ethnicities, even moments in history.
