Journal
Window is a journal Maria Amidu started in January 2016, it is a repository for her random musings on significant and insignificant things
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'
majorities...
Whenever I listen to BBC Radio 4 someone always says something that just grates, so today it was something about 'minorities', I swear this word is going to cause me to do something I'll regret, why the hell are some white people, quite a lot of them actually, defining themselves (in word and or deed) as the majority with such ease, what do you call yourselves if you're in a room full of the 'minority'? Maybe this has never happened to these people, maybe that's where the assuredness and assumption comes from... Try it, try that out, see how that works out for you... As a wise, wise friend said yesterday: “this, all this is "high level fuckery!"
Young British & Black
These headlines read like my life in my 20s, why is this all still going on....?!
the middling sort
I wonder about the arrogance of some of the middle class thinking they've got living right whilst covertly and sometimes overtly mocking/pitying/lamenting everyone else, there are many ways to be a good human on the planet and the 'western' have stuff/own stuff is not the only way
in it together
who put white men in charge of humanity....oh yeah, they did, like I said consciously incompetent, we've been here for way too long
Explainers
So, my brilliant friend and lockdown angel Akila Richards and I have been talking a lot about how to manage the bombardment of questions and demands of us now that everyone has finally woken up to the fact that our lives matter and that we have been robbed of so much because a significant portion of the global population deemed themselves better than us. Below is what we have - our new, practical strategy, always easily accessible on our phones, graded based on the attitude of/relationship to the person doing the asking:
One, two or three, pick one:
1. the bird
2. “I don’t got the time, I’m on my trampoline, this is my time” Amanda Seales
3. “Between stimulus and response there is a space” Viktor Frankl
competence
unconsciously incompetent, the old normal, we are done with this now, no excuses
consciously incompetent, we've been here for way too long
consciously competent, this is gonna take a lot of hard work for years and years
unconsciously competent, the new future normal