‘If shame was a country it would be the largest in the world. We trade shame on the stock exchange of our lives. Mass media swim on the profitable waves of bad news. Shame turns and twists our clear sight. It tells us that we are less than and therefore need something more. It is systemized and distributed through our cultures and economies. We telling others they are less than us in the schoolyard and in our families and then making sure we keep up that sense of tragic, dysfunctional superiority through our money systems, mass media systems and social systems. Shame is the white bread we eat every day. It is the oil slick that is ruining our planet. It is the sinking sand on which our muscular culture of winner takes all has been built. It is how we all lose’.

How to add something new & personal to the news?

Some of the things the world can shame you for:

1. Dreaming (in forests).
2. Being more feminine than masculine.
3. Being repulsed by masculinity.
4. Being not macho enough.
5. Wanting beauty, wanting softness.
4. Loving ballet.
5. Hating the boys playing combat games.
6. Stupid schools. Stupid teachers.
7. Being afraid of things.
8. Fighter planes above your head.
9. Talking slowly and precise.
10. Being lonely. Being confused.
11. Talking heads with opinions.
12. Being guided by personal and sexual preferences.
13. Being focussed on intimate interaction.
14. Combining physical and imagined spaces.
15. Putting yourself out there in plain view.
16. Confronting the world with your world.
17. Exorcising you.
18. Listening for things that have no sound.
19. Being in a waiting room.
20. Being fascinated by the interplay of shame and shadows.
21. Looking straight into the eyes of spectators.
22. Discovering shadows as elementary building blocks.
23. Observing and then describing what you see.
24. Reshaping reality.
25. Making collages (huge amounts).
26. Being surrounded by shameful or shameless behavior in modern life.
27. Working with both the possibilities and barriers of sexuality.
28. Regaining space to reframe what you see.
29. Having a strong belief in the impact of authentic disruptive artistic power.
30. Having a strong believe in the healing, softening power of beauty.

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