@fastcompany: When Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Aleshea Harris puts her work into the world, she doesn’t always know how an audience will react. Harris remembers having a conversation with a director about what whiteness and racism can do when they have access to honest expression, like in her work. “There is a sense of protectionism, but I refuse to stop writing or to write safe to keep a safe version that white people can’t mess with because that’s impossible," she says on the latest episode of the Creative Control podcast. "So I’m going to get free.” The film adaptation of Harris's award-winning play "Is God Is" was just released in theaters. Listen to her full conversation with KC Ifeanyi at the link in bio.

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