12.11.2026
A: Why do you think that this world is against you?
S: It is not theory. It is based on personal experience. Having talent and seeing how that was recognised and valued because of my background.
A: How do you know it is your background and not you?
S: The individualisation and victim blaming strategy? It does not work theoretically. Because I am my background. You cannot separate my personality from my background. Also, the statistics. We have the least representation in film and TV in the UK. We lag behind proportional representation in publishing, academia and cultural institutions – all places that I work in. So to have the insolence to try and blame it on the victims shows the level of corruption of the debate in this country and how they try to silence us when we call out their injustice.
A: Didn’t your friends and family tell you to swallow the injustice and the insult? Haven’t you been cancelled for calling it out? They will classify you as one with sour grapes, a bad fit for any time. What they call a ‘crusader’, one of the many words designed to stop any resistance or any change to the existing order. Why draw attention to yourself? Why say it?
S: They can try and classify us as paranoiacs. As too sensitive. They can try and classify us as liars. But, as Freud said, the paranoiac is not entirely wrong.
A: So in your view, all of these people that make up culture in this country, they exclude, block, marginalise and silence you?
S: What else? What support have I got for my ambitions from them? I myself am the attack on cultural capital. That is how they perceive us. As an attack on them to be defended against. They are the dominant with the cultural capital. They hold the means of representation. And no matter how qualified we are (I have five degrees with top results), no matter how much we achieve (I have published article after article about art history, books, journal articles, journalism, poetry, in websites, I have my own publishing press), no matter our experience (being a curator, professional photographer, published art critic and historian, working in most cultural institutions in London), it is never ever enough for them. It is them. Not us. That is my personal experience.
A: These posts are competitive.
S: You have not seen the industry from the inside. You do not know how the recruitment works. I know. I have the personal insider’s view. And yet, you, the outsider, that knows nothing about it, you have the audacity and the arrogance to think that you know better than me? What a ridiculous society and what a ridiculous debate.
A: You never admit you’re wrong.
S: In fact, that is you and all of this society. You will not admit you are wrong and change. You will stick to your oppression and your injustice. You will stick to your devaluation and lack of recognition of us. I will never agree to your victim blaming and false individualisation. I know what I deserve and what is owed to me. And I have not been given it for the wrong reasons. I know where I stand in the world of thought. And I am am still after my due. I am still the challenge. I am still the attack on cultural capital. I am the warrior from the warrior culture. I am what they fear.
