Our arts collective is made up of artists from different colonized backgrounds and we're trying to create work that speaks to decolonization, but we keep running into tensions about whether to make our work accessible to white audiences or to center our own communities even if that means smaller platforms and less funding. Some of us think we need to meet people where they are and others think that's just more code-switching that serves the system.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group is wrestling with the fundamental tension between reaching beyond their communities to create change and protecting their work from being co-opted by the systems they're critiquing.
“Where Are You with The examined colonial subject?”
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