The reader point of view

What is the reader point of view?
I would stress that the practice of speaking for
others is often born of a desire for mastery, to privilege
oneself as the one who more correctly understands the truth
about another's situation or as one who can champion a just
cause and thus achieve glory and praise. And the effect of the
practice of speaking for others is often, though not always,
erasure and a reinscription of sexual, national, and other
kinds of hierarchies. I hope that this analysis will contribute
toward rather than diminish the important discussion going
on today about how to develop strategies for a more
equitable, just distribution of the ability to speak and be
heard. But this development should not be taken as an
absolute dis-authorization of all practices of speaking for. It
is not always the case that when others unlike me speak for
me I have ended up worse off, or that when we speak for
others they end up worse off. Sometimes, as Loyce Stewart
has argued, we do need a "messenger" to advocate for our
needs.

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