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This Work isn't For Us — by Jemma Desai

This Work isn’t For Us is an ongoing study, initiated by Jemma Desai. Partly a critical appraisal of historic "diversity" initiatives, partly an alternative policy document, the study is also an embodied ethnography, assembling testimonies from arts workers navigating institutionally initiated gestures at "inclusion".

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  1. A Black Person

    This urgent reading! Thank you, Jemma. There is purpose in your pain and I commend your bravery for sharing and exposing truths. x