A map of what was exiled
Each card names a part of being human that the systems we live inside teach us to exile. The writing gathered under it is an expression of that part: my own stories, work in other mediums, and in time, conversations with other people about theirs.
Together they make an economy of stories. Each one told, of how a part went quiet, where it cracked through and what letting it back in looked like, makes the next one easier to tell.
These lines are drawn from my drafts. They get redrawn as each piece is written.
01Who you are and how you show up
4 cards04Home, family and roots
4 cards05Creativity, pleasure and play
4 cards06Health, the body and daily life
4 cards07Relationships and partnership
5 cards09Meaning, faith and doubt
3 cards10Work, reputation and how you’re seen
3 cardsIt tells us worth is productivity, rest is laziness, and softness is weakness.
Class
4 cardsThe familiar urge to just get on with it, and not to ask for too much.
Patriarchy
5 cardsSystems we've inherited, that reward disconnection and call it success.
Colonial structures that continue to extract from people and Country.
Technology
1 cardTechnology isn't neutral. It mirrors our values, our fears, our intent.
I've had to adapt and mask just to get by.
Family and inheritance
3 cardsOur money stories are rarely just our own. They're shaped by silence. By survival.
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