JOURNAL
Window is a journal Maria Amidu started in January 2015, it is a repository for her random musings on significant and insignificant things
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
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