Oh my word!! THIS. I have been trying to hard to find the words for some of my feelings around conversations about equality, representation and inclusion. None of these terms need to come as sympathetic They just demand a clarity of intention... https://twitter.com/merisesher/status/1332245681067745280
So tired of sitting in spaces where people feel that doing the work on equality and inclusion is somehow about feeling sorry for people. And the (White) saviour complexes that comes with that, and so many of our arts infrastructure is built on, being a comfort blanket of sorts...
Of course we feel sorry. Of course we feel sorry for those communities that haven’t been let into OUR cultural world. Of course we have sympathy for the struggle and racism, and of course by saying we create projects that have that sympathy at heart of them we’re doing the work.
No that sympathy only works for you. It does not translate simply by feeling it. It can only translate in intentional and reconstructive action against a system that you have existed in that is YOURS whilst. And truly, how do we move on beyond simply having sympathy? How?
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