honestly hate that every time there's an industry bad actor, lists of "works by marginalized authors to support instead" start circulating like it's a moral obligation to be done out of guilt, & it's crickets every other day of the year. my art is not to be taken in as a reactionary measure
i want to be taken seriously as an artist instead of "look at that asian person who also makes art how cute let's throw them a few dollars". it's so fucking degrading
like what is this!!! is it art or is it medicine!!! what is the sickness we are trying to treat, the fact that you liked work by a person who turned out to be shitty??? it's insane
I interpret it as a way to assist people to "do something" that they may not have considered or have known where to go or how to find or what to do on their own.
The consuming comment is valid of course, but our society does run on money.
After 9/11 an older friend, ex-hippy and protester in the 60s was livid at the message to "buy NYC" - i.e. support businesses there. When I asked how else were people to show support she really didn't have an idea. Because society runs on money.
in the case of art, which we are talking about specifically-- if ppl are not organically supporting them-- finding your way to them out of something other than guilt, reading them out of anything other than enjoyment & telling your friends-- neither of us gets anything out of it
