Since the days of fairytales, heroes have been important tools for storytelling. The audience knows and loves the formula. But what happens, when fairytales meet reality? The emergence of marginalized communities have reinforced the need for new heroes. So bring them on! How do you choose your heroes? Who gets to choose them? Sometimes heroes fall from grace, fall from the platforms, media helped to build for them. Then, what is the impact on the community and are there larger considerations than the truth? Who can tell the stories of our heroes — and who can dismantle them?
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