An Unequal Music
I read ‘When I Hit You’ by Meena Kandasamy and it brought me back to an episode in my relationship with music.
Navigating complex emotions of jealousy, ambition, insecurity, joy, fear, peace, anger, happiness, betrayal, contentment, disappointment, love.
I read ‘When I Hit You’ by Meena Kandasamy and it brought me back to an episode in my relationship with music.
‘Harriet the Spy’ is about a 11 year old girl who is gagged by family & system and forced into therapy. Reading helped me crystallise my own identity crisis.
We all face situations that are alarming & scary. We seek escape. This must mean we are all creating potential addictions for ourselves, every day.
I’m on a self imposed Flinch reaction ban.
It’s housekeeping time in the relationships corner of my life. That means letting go of people who don’t behave like my equals.
New friends, new kinds of friendships, new definitions of support and ways to engage with others lead to a new me. New life?
Last week, after I performed a piece about women, I was verbally attacked & threatened by a man. This is how others reacted.
Yesterday I was introduced on stage by a misogynist host. After I performed a piece about womanhood, another man began harassing me.
Marriage becomes a political boundary between people, turning them from friends into people needing security checks & visas.
Paper Plane & coffee