JOURNAL
Window is a journal Maria Amidu started in January 2015, it is a repository for her random musings on significant and insignificant things
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
word collecting
carelessness tautology stupidity temporality privilege longing lament always waiting no more waiting disintegration demands truth darkness exhaustion erasure lessons sensorial peripheral regret teeth kicked so much disappointment
brown skin girl
blackness, black, BAME and on and on (stop calling us things or making us call ourselves things), disregard/dismissal/denial/derision/ has already crept into people’s minds before I’ve even finished uttering the word/s, I refuse blackness, and BAME (aarrghhhh), I am brown, so, if I say anti-brown instead of anti-black the absurdity of this supremacism becomes all the more evident, also, brown is not in opposition to white; what colour is it in opposition to… beige… see what I mean!eradicating/abolishing anti-brown(blackness) is not about us it is about them because whilst they collude in this living horror show they are the embodiment of the very inhumanity they have us believing we embody