"For me, music provided a safe outlet to harness my compulsions and insecurities into something creative, and I eventually became a composer. But Western classical music has a dangerous history of linking creativity, mental illness, and genius worship." In ACF and I Care if You Listen's 9th Casting Light article, Nina Shekhar discusses "trauma porn"--the capitalization of artists’ and community traumas to appease another person’s guilt or stoke their consumerist pleasure--and its negative effects on creators. "For arts organizations, the focus is often on working towards a single performance," writes Shekhar, "but artists must deal with the long-term psychological ramifications of creating a work." To read more, visit the link in our bio #NewMusic #MusicCreator #Artists4Equity