How do you acknowledge the exceptional situation of being white, from the inside, without saying all the wrong things?
For starters, you quote from a website: āAs Jason Katz argues in the film Tough Guise: Violence, Media, & the Crisis in Masculinity, the way in which domination operates is that the dominant group is often rendered invisible and thus is unexamined. When we talk about race we normally think about African American, Latino, Asian; when we talk about sexual orientation we think homosexual, bisexual, transgender; when we talk about gender we think female. Rarely do we really look at the dominant group ā as if white isnāt a racial category, as if heterosexual isnāt a sexual orientation, and as if males donāt have a gender. So if weāre talking about racial issues specifically, part of what it means to be white is to not have your personal character flaws or actions attributed to your race.ā
In part devised in workshop with performers Souad Faress, Nisha Nayar and Nina Logue, Made VisibleĀ is a playĀ based on a supposed āreal encounterā in Victoria Park with two strangers, about white privilege and white accountability.
Nothing will be solved, and everything will be messy. This is not about guilt and confessions, but honesty. However far that can get us.
Hackney Wick
Directed by Stella Odunlami. Ā Starring Mia Soteriou, Anjali Mya Chadha and Haley McGee.