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.@Critic_Speak asked me to contribute to a podcast discussion around the subject of race in the Welsh Arts scene.

They wanted me to talk about how I might have suffered, as a Black artist, from the gatekeeping White hierarchy that has dominated Welsh culture forever.

Instead/
my piece talks about how being Welsh, being Black, being an artist, is not based on some outward evaluation, someone’s acknowledgment of my oppression, nor on some outside validation of my identity; I base my value on the meaning that is left when all else is stripped away/
That is, simply, How Do I Live?

How do I live when women and girls are subjected to such violence on their bodies, their psychology, their education and choices?

How do I live when to be born female is still to be thought of as lesser, to be treated as of little consequence?/
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