We oppose literary hegemony exercised by any person or group, where they are the arbiters of good taste or who can define whether something is literature or not.
Several people within the Chicago Latino literary world are positioning themselves to be the ones who decide what is literature and who can or cannot write.
This implies that if someone does not belong to their group or literary workshops, they will not have the necessary qualifications to be accepted in the (their) literary world of Chicago.
Freedom of expression has been and is always the basis of good writing, of universal literature; those who write or have written have never asked permission to do so.
By accepting the opinion of “curators” of literature, they are granting themselves the power to accept or reject the literary work of others if it does not suit their tastes or if they do not belong to their network of followers.
Art in Chicago strongly opposes the idea that one person or group of people can decide what is literature or not.