I am a woman and I am an artist.

I am privileged enough that I do not see my race when I look in the mirror.

I am grateful to the women before me, and those men of support, who paved the way of possibility for me to make this request.

I am allowed to have a voice, albeit it still took me an unnaturally long amount of time to seriously entertain this idea and give sound to it. I am still apologetic.

It is still not easy to be female, in whichever form you take it.

The world is ill at ease and we, the young, are afraid.

Our fear, like yours, leads us to act instinctually and often destructively. No matter how good our intention, we are divisive.

Age becomes a division as we are too young to understand, and perhaps some of you are too old to recall ,the urgency of a shifting zeitgeist. Perhaps it never concerned you, or shouldn't us.

That we are now "permitted" a voice, the historically marginalised, does not mean we are allowed to express it without ancient prejudice. A prejudice, and a struggle, to be taken seriously.

We are angry and afraid.

We need help.

I value the experiences of those individuals that have lived through the trauma and change of undeniable inequality. Breaking through gender barriers, or watching the women in your lives do so. The compromises you had to make to be allowed to have a voice. The things you’ve kept silent for the sake of the comfortability of others. The racial nuances, or distinctions, of your experience. I value that you may think the young “simply don’t know how good we have it”, or “that the worst thing to happen to society was the women’s rights movements”. I value it all. I need it to make sense of all of this. We need it.

I am seeking submissions of experience. With permission I will use words of yours to create artworks to tell a story of war, peace, gender, race, the physical, the digital, the personal – the zeitgeists of living memory. If you are uncomfortable with your words being used but would still like to share I will keep your words to myself. All will be anonymised unless otherwise requested.

If you are interested in sharing and have access to email please send your thoughts to:

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