Tara in Whiter-land: adventures of a brown girl who can't get her head out white theatre's twat

Hi friends, Today I'm thinking about my own specific harms from toxic bias in my education experience, the ways that white supremacy culture becomes part of the creative cannon by educators of theatre practice, healing, and accountability. 1. In the Middle of it... 2. What's your shoe size, Boogey? 3. Cry It Out 4. Fear as Cannon 5. Literal and Metaphorical CLOWN TRAINING 6. Identities 7. Culture 8. Punishments 9. The footprints of WS in education 10. Physical Theatre School Death Star 11.  The enduring legacy of fear-based education practices: it aint about you 12. "True Artistry" 13.  Making the Invisible, Visible 14. It was never about me 15 . On f reeing voices at the expense of other voices 16. B eyond their interests 17. You are in it (or, wrestling with White Supremacy Culture) Thanks for sharing the tea, and feel free to write to me with your thoughts at Tara@waxingmoonmasks.com. -Tara ***** I n   t h e   m i d d l e   o f   i t ...

In this series of blog posts, I want to address the issue of danger from white allies. This week we'll talk about trust and what Brene Brown calls, the Cheap Seats.  WHITE ALLIES, part 1: The Cheap Seats 1. I’m just Sharing my Point of View 2. Anvil Screaming for a Good Whacking 3. This is the Cheap Seats Scenario 4. You Probably Just have an Outlier Experience 5. Social Location 6. Omitting 7. Hallelujah We Know the Way 8. Subtle Mistrust 11.  Who Spends Himself on a Worthy Cause 12. If you’re Not Interested in Getting your Ass  Kicked, I’m not Interested in your Feedback 13. Colosseum of War 14. Shake a Finger 15. Your Most Significant Bias   I’M JUST SHARING MY POINT OF VIEW!? One of the most problematic manifestations of privilege and whiteness that I encounter online is the implied innocence of saying ‘I’m just sharing my point of view’ on a post that speaks to someone else’s need for acknowledgment for a less dominant expe...

  As a person of color who hasn’t always known what it means to be a person of color, I feel a deep need to share my experiences with a spectrum of folks because I think that even if you know this shit is going on, until the stupidest among us (that’s me in this example) speaks up, these things stay marginalized. More folks need to say it out loud to help break the spell.   It’s an “Emperor has no clothes” kind of situation- but in this case the emperor is just wearing a business suit but it just so happens that this is also the garb of white supremacy culture so it’s harder to spot because it's everywhere!   ... If that makes sense. Racial identity shouldn't mean anything.  Those folks who go around saying they are 'color blind' have a tiny part of the idea right, were the idea given no content at all, or were the world an entirely equitable place as it was.  But in context of the world where humans have been sold and beaten and killed based on the color of t...

Monday, November 9, 2020 7:43 PM w a y   t o o   n a r r o w It's two days since we got news that the most flagrant fascist in the White House of all time did in fact NOT win the country's official electoral count. LUCKY IS PROBABLY THE RIGHT WORD FOR THIS OUTCOME BECAUSE DEMOCRACY ONE BY WAY TOO NARROW A MARGIN.   Many folks are still in celebration mode here and about on the interwebs, so far as I can tell, and like any good drunk, or a stoner using an Indica, you better believe peeps are getting sentimental. Like overly so.  Like, showing themselves to have a lot of naïve ideas about what it means to live in a country the size of Russia that nearly became Russia kind-of-naivety.  And in the midst of this sloshy return from staring death in the face, rightfully so, a lot of people are looking for who we have to thank for delivering this however temporary victory over authoritarianism.   Spoilers, there are a lot of folks to thank....