In my first term of RCA I noted a series of interactions and questions from non POC. Context is everything though... I am black, I do have a strong Trinidadian accent and I am West Indian. Another friend would later point out that what I was facing was "Microaggression". I made this work about it...using the most common questions/ enquiries about who I was, where I was from and why I was here and what did I do? It was going to be the basis of performance piece called " Ask a Black man", which I never did. It (the work) also spawned a text based companion film that I also abandoned choosing instead to use my energy on other things.
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“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches