A Big Eyed Fish

Tag: racism

  • Taking the Casting Conversations from personal to structural

    Taking the Casting Conversations from personal to structural

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    Rachel Grossman
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      The focus on specific producing theatres, plays, artists, and management staff keeps our conversations about racism and white supremacy culture in the theatre industry on the “personal” level instead looking to the “systemic.”  If we make it about whether we can/not cast one particular play a specific way, whether these artists made a bad…

  • Dear My Fellow White People

    Dear My Fellow White People

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    Rachel Grossman
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    Given the appropriate outpouring of condemnation that’s overflowed my social media newsfeeds since White Nationalists, Nazis, Far Right, and other all-White racist hate groups converged on Charlottesville, VA last weekend, I wanted to highlight two maneuvers of mental gymnastics which help White people protect themselves. Racists are Evil I saw this image on FaceBook a…

  • Go Set a Watchman in Your Home

    Go Set a Watchman in Your Home

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    Rachel Grossman
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    Looking back, it was hardly coincidental that I picked up Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman shortly after DJT was elected to office. It was clearly the catalyst for my first steps of in-the-home activism. Watchman takes place in the 1950s, 20 years after To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout—now called Jean Louise—returns to her hometown…