JOURNAL
Window is a journal Maria Amidu started in January 2015, it is a repository for her random musings on significant and insignificant things
"name calling"
stop defining us, stop categorising us, stop pointing, stop calling us things, stop expecting us to call ourselves things, just stop othering us, why on earth do these distinctions need to be made in the first place - that, all that was the old paradigm and we all knew it was bullshit then
word collecting
all this is not an agenda item for you to attach words to in a meeting, this is people's actual lived experiences"life went for the jugular"
dismantling
dismantling has to be the new paradigm - the attitude, the system and the historical stuff that is still lingering in people’s psyches the world over; the words, sentences, statements we make and currently use can no longer apply, we need new words and new psyches to eradicate this dehumanising living horror show
refrain...
...the race place, no one wants to be in that place and no one should be shunted there either; the unrelenting refrain: "you there black woman you do not matter and you do not belong here." (and as I've said before it's not just the out and proud racists who are doing the pointing, racist actions are on a spectrum: 1 = casual, 100 = murderers). I am exhausted
and again!
“I can’t be a pessimist because I’m alive, to be a pessimist means that you’ve agreed that human life is an academic matter, so I’m forced to be an optimist…” The inimitable James Baldwin
Good Chance
Puppetry is so not my thing but this moved me to tears, Good Chance Theatre I saw White Rabbit Red Rabbit at the Southbank a few years ago when Cush Jumbo performed it, was brilliant!
festival
Two new projects out at the same time and in two coastal festivals and at two extremes of the emotional spectrum: Tenebrae: Lessons Learnt in Darkness and Watermarks
technicolour talk from the universe
these two books, sitting alone on the museum bench when I arrived, kept Jason Reynolds, obvs, left the other one on a different bench (when I worked out it wasn’t my kind of thing) for someone to notice and be delighted it found them
