three topics which have been on my mind lately:
representation/ identity:
who has the right to represent who and why are we so afraid to have those discussions?
i'm curious about the idea of a safe space and what that means to a community of people who are working together on a personal, artistic and professional level.
is it possible not to let your own "identity" get in the way of representing something much larger than yourself?
ethics:
is it healthy to not agree with all of the elements which fill the work you're making? does that make you a hypocrite?
romanticize:
do we lean into the idea of romanticizing our cultures, homelands or ancestors/ lack there of? how can we forge our own identities respectfully in regards to those that came before us, those that exist now and those that will be here after us?
toolkit:
i read, " white privilege: unpacking an invisible backpack."
something that i found helpful was the list she made. i think it's a helpful way to identify the larger points of one's own privilege and the complexities that might exist so that when it comes to having a dialog about it, one doesn't feel like they're speaking for anyone but themselves.
i am interested in this quote and diving deeper into this theory of,
"I did not see myself as a racist because I was taught to recognize racism only in individual acts of meanness by members of my group, never in invisible systems conferring unsought racial dominance on my group from birth."
representation/ identity:
who has the right to represent who and why are we so afraid to have those discussions?
i'm curious about the idea of a safe space and what that means to a community of people who are working together on a personal, artistic and professional level.
is it possible not to let your own "identity" get in the way of representing something much larger than yourself?
ethics:
is it healthy to not agree with all of the elements which fill the work you're making? does that make you a hypocrite?
romanticize:
do we lean into the idea of romanticizing our cultures, homelands or ancestors/ lack there of? how can we forge our own identities respectfully in regards to those that came before us, those that exist now and those that will be here after us?
toolkit:
i read, " white privilege: unpacking an invisible backpack."
something that i found helpful was the list she made. i think it's a helpful way to identify the larger points of one's own privilege and the complexities that might exist so that when it comes to having a dialog about it, one doesn't feel like they're speaking for anyone but themselves.
i am interested in this quote and diving deeper into this theory of,
"I did not see myself as a racist because I was taught to recognize racism only in individual acts of meanness by members of my group, never in invisible systems conferring unsought racial dominance on my group from birth."
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