Journal
Window is a journal Maria Amidu started in January 2016, it is a repository for her random musings on significant and insignificant things
word collecting
carelessness tautology stupidity temporality privilege longing lament always waiting no more waiting disintegration demands truth darkness exhaustion erasure lessons sensorial peripheral regret teeth kicked so much disappointment
brown skin girl
blackness, black, BAME and on and on (stop calling us things or making us call ourselves things), disregard/dismissal/denial/derision/ has already crept into people’s minds before I’ve even finished uttering the word/s, I refuse blackness, and BAME (aarrghhhh), I am brown, so, if I say anti-brown instead of anti-black the absurdity of this supremacism becomes all the more evident, also, brown is not in opposition to white; what colour is it in opposition to… beige… see what I mean!eradicating/abolishing anti-brown(blackness) is not about us it is about them because whilst they collude in this living horror show they are the embodiment of the very inhumanity they have us believing we embody
direction
"What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it will destroy our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places - and there are so many - where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction."Howard Zinn
word collecting
provocateur panacea agitator jabbing residual character building protection lungs bubbles watery key
unknowing
'in this moment'.... what about all the other million moments of the ignored and disenfranchised (the state care experienced for example) who observe from the sidelines (in bemusement, incredulity, annoyance) as society wakes up to what has been 'normal' for a very long time... and want to shout (well I do anyway) get a fucking grip for god's sake, am I being too harsh......must remember to think 'what's happened to them' rather than 'what's wrong with them'