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Something I've been thinking a lot about – and a tricky subject to handle – is how we amplify and give flowers to certain voices
While it's obviously flattering to be highlighted as a talent, when that's always with the caveat as a 'young PoC' or 'young woman' it can feel a little... limiting. As if you're only ranked as good enough within certain categories directly linked to your identity.
I'm not denying it's obviously important to curate certain spaces to amplify specific voices – that's why @galdemzine is such a vital spot. I'm talking more about the language we use to highlight these voices on sites like social media.
Don't want to speak for others who occupy positions on the spectrum of marginalised identities but there is that whispered question of whether people are engaging with your work because they think it's good on its own merit or whether they are doing it from some weird social duty
I also don't want to sound like I'm being ungrateful. But it's something that is playing on my mind at the moment both in relation to how people treat my work and how I handle the work of others. I want to support, not to patronise or be paternalistic.
This is something we are very keen to do at gal-dem as well; to make sure the talent we work with are not pigeonholed into only producing work that is focused on their identities. Sometimes it will be central, sometimes it will merely inform work.
