Junot Diaz attends the fifth annual Norman Mailer Center benefit gala in New York in 2013. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz has withdrawn from a writers festival amid allegations that he had forcefully kissed a woman and showed aggressive behavior toward others. She had invited Diaz to speak at a workshop, but Diaz “used it as an opportunity to corner and forcibly kiss me,” Clemmons wrote on Twitter. We must continue to teach all men about consent and boundaries.”As a grad student, I invited Junot Diaz to speak to a workshop on issues of representation in literature. Such conversations have never become more timely.”Diaz is the latest in a long parade of well-known men to be accused of inappropriate sexual behavior.

Source: Washington Post May 05, 2018 18:13 UTC