We had presentations to update on our projects and it was good and hard to hear others. Good, because of intimacy, the humour, the variety and hard, because everyone sounds so much more like the can contextualise their work in this setting far more than me. I don't have your words, and you don't have mine.
I got grumpy, stroppy perhaps as I got questioned about my use of words and style in a draft one page about the project. Cheeky I thought, you don't know me but are desperate to say something? It clearly showed an ideological viewpoint that there was objectivity if you write with a more 'passive tone'. Passive aggressive rule the world... or have done!
Ok learning - no need to get grumpy as I will get accused of being the aggressive one. The question could have been returned back, do you think there is such a thing as objective? Do I have to tame every word? Do I extract every bit of life from me to fit you and your world? Perhaps I would live more comfortably if I did, perhaps...
Representing Resistance is not about pretending. Its about shining a light on areas of our life's hidden, distorted and continually suppressed. I want the light too, I need that light, the dark, brutal world that I feel and see too often, is only part of it, part of the possibility of what we are or could be. Don't make me pretend like you.
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