The Police and The Black Community: The Same People?!- Response…
Congrats on graduating ICJ. I come into the city along and along, sometimes even for things at JJ, so we can figure it out,
It’s a gift to have the chance to read someone’s work. Thank you for the opportunity.
I had time to read through once today so I’ll offer a few things before I learn more about what you’d like to explore.
So, first off – congratulations — it’s a tremendous feat to get our words on paper. And to bravely send them out into the universe!
I really appreciate the content of your work — exploring the role of oppressed and oppressor. It’s actually a very relevant theme in my own work right now. More on that some other time.
I also really appreciate the form of your writing — the choice to create the different sections and a clear enumerated argument. It juxtaposes formal and informal knowledge, which then reflects back to the content — the valuing of one experience/being/community while devaluing another experience/being/community. The ways our systems impose guidelines that keep some in and some out…
Finally – I appreciate the interplay between teaching the reader/audience — and speaking your mind/truth/radical authenticity.
I’m curious who you imagine as your audience — how do you plan to share this? The theatre artist in me is imaging it as a play.
What other notes would be helpful to you at this point in your process? I’m happy to read it again while keeping in mind any questions or ideas that you’re working out.
I’m also happy to elaborate about anything above, as I find it takes a while to develop a collaborative skillful dialogue about art. I’m also throwing around a lot of concepts.
Have a great evening,
PayneInTheCulo 