This piece of creative speculative fiction transports the reader directly into the scenery, we feel the pain of Kwakua as if it was our own. When reading this I was brought to tears and immediately called my mother, taken aback by how this piece reminded me of how much I miss her. This intuitive feeling brought on my reading this links into my methods of creative processing and thereby holds much relevance.

Much like my personal line of thinking, this article looks at oppression, and specifically the act of de-centralizing the oppressor from the story of the oppressed. I find this narrative to be of immense importance when learning to understand and create with the goal of disruption in mind.

I enjoy working with overlapping and intersectional subjects and this is what this piece does, it plays within the grey areas of overlap. While most of the content of this article does not hold too much relevance, the act of unpacking overlapping structures fits into my research and art practice.

In this interview, Zadie Smith talks about shame as a positive form of self-reflection and self-expression and shame in relation to understanding identity. She explains the intertwined essence of whiteness and insecurity of exclusion and I find that this links to my process of understanding my own boundaries regarding how inclusive or exclusive I want or need my work to be.