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seeing Ivors Awards nominations this morning — remind me again why we haven’t yet simply binned these gatekeeping disciplining rituals of institutional approval which will fundamentally always depend on problematic values judgements / act as mechanisms of exclusion ??
this comes from me doing my yearly look through nominees and realising I simply do not care about the % of women ... visible demographic diversity WITHIN these exclusionary systems will always be that — WITHIN exclusionary systems —which gatekeep what is ‘valid’ or ‘good’
I’m happy for (and not judging) those creators who’ve participated / been nominated — I understand that institutional approval (esp for underrepresented folks) feels IMPORTANT in a world where artists’ careers are sooo precarious and work drastically undervalued / underpaid !!!
and further on from that point I understand that the structures we have make it important to strive for institutional approval to be able to e.g. whack it on your CV and hopefully make a bit more money 
but if we all stopped buying (literally, don’t you have to pay to enter ??) into this, it would simply cease to have the power that it currently possesses ! wouldn’t it be amazing to move past a world where we need some crusty institution to tell us what “good art” is eh ???
we’ve been scammed into thinking that if more women / poc were nominated for the Ivors then ‘diversity’ problems in composition would simply be solved !!! ultimately why do we WANT to conform to / be judged by a context created by patriarchy, white supremacy and capitalism ..?
p.s. in case anyone needs proof that this is a dumpster fire, the demographic stats are bad. but have we not moved past the numbers game ???? come on folks ....
once again I truly do respect and admire the creative folks who have been nominated this year and there is no judgement for participating from me bc I get it .... I just rlly wish we could get rid of stuff like this 
