Don’t Want to Be Canceled? Do What Dolly Parton Does
4 min readFeb 5, 2022
Bringing people in rather than calling them out could be the secret to her popularity across divides.
Loving Dolly Parton used to be my guilty secret. Back in the noughties, I didn’t tell friends I had coveted tickets to see her live because, you know, not cool.
But then I was struck by her voice, ability to play 20 (!) instruments, and her…