9.6.2014
Grace by Sage Francis
Director: Jay Brown, treatment written by Sage Francis
Gaffer: David Meiklejohn, FX: Paul Mihailoff, Casting: Krystal Kenville
PA: Brendan Flynn.
Actors in order of Appearance: Sage Francis, Pamela Chabora, Eileen Hanley, Isaiah Brown, Mike Aberle, Tatum Strunk Special thanks: Irena Mihalinec, Karen True, Allen Baldwin, Susan Robbins.
https://blossom.primal.net/a1f146326bd8a1ad438fac3c0e86cda5a6c09772ca207964dc22a2bb38c48754.mov
mental illness, psychiatric disorders, marginalization, institutionalization, caregiver abuse..
i just rarely rarely see it out here
when i find it, i wanna amplify in 2026
i think the art is important, i think the conversations are important, and im also thinking about it in terms of bayo akomolafe's monsters and the cracks
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a means of control, forced colonization, forced domesticity, forced civilization
once diagnosed a monster on record, your social position is so precarious
forever can this weaponized against you
and whenever you, the monster, speak of abuse, neglect, betrayal, lack of care, failures in the system, failures interpersonally
you get told:
well, they were scared
you made them uncomfortable
of course they were frightened
you are dangerous
they had to distance
for their own safety they had to do this
they were centering themselves
they were worried about drowning too
unhoused? homeless?
you have to understand why they treat you like that
your presence in material reality on earth reminds them that this could happen to them
so naturally, as a defense mechanism, they have to see you as not them. they have to see you as a series of bad choices they would never make to feel safer inside their bodies
everyone gets to be scared
everyone gets to be a coward
and you get to die
that is what marginalization means pragmatically
they get to fail you because they are only human
and you get to die because you arent
besides the fact that caring is the right thing to do
besides that fear, while natural, is a bullshit excuse, too
can also, both personally and collectively astro riff and will
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