JOURNAL
Window is a journal Maria Amidu started in January 2015, it is a repository for her random musings on significant and insignificant things
Sault
Sault’s Untitled (Black Is) is an incantation made from the traumas of being despised and vilified for having brown skin. It describes and mirrors precisely the emotional tornado that comes from living in a world where people feel entitled to hate you for no reason, and act on that hate in subtle and overt ways, the cognitive dissonance of this daily assault and the courage it takes to carrying on living through it. This is why brown people are so good at music, sometimes it is the only medicine. Miracles literally saved me from disintegrating, not just because of the melody and lyric but because it comes after all the outpouring in the tracks before it, just at the point in the narrative when your despair is about to destroy you. Genius!
refrain
Needed to put these two reoccurring thoughts somewhere:Who gets to define a good life... Is it just the haves constantly telling the have nots where they have gone ‘wrong’... And I’ve been wondering about this term common sense... Is it yet another way of privileging conventional thinking over the imagination...
paying attention...
...so, I don't normally care too much about these things but a friend said the other day that I should: that I need to own my off the cuff phrase "busybeingequal" before someone else claims it... so I'm paying attention and making it known (again here) that is was actually me who said it :-)I have bought some domain names and am registering it as a trademark, very grown up!(someone has snuck in a bought busybeingequal.black but I guess I shouldn't be too bothered because not having to use 'black' is the whole point of the bloody thing!)
#"busybeingequal" (MA)
deleting "the third question" (EJ) from our psyches, and "removing the need to ask for permission" (LGC) from the "mean" (S) - possibly/probably both definitions - of society
"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"