SASS 10th Anniversary V1 | Page 50

2007 ~ 2012 | 50 A NEW CAMPUS AND THE BIRTH OF SASS ▲ I created a series of collages out of old bible study notes. We received these every week. I kept some of them. The vegetables are there to show that no matter how much good stuff you eat, if you feed your mind with shit, your life will be garbage. Movement + Ritual Theatre. Collab with Minuit Init. ▶ (A) mind-blowing moment: The first time I realised how truly institutionalised the suppression of women was. How it has been stitched so deep into the fabric of society with a bright red thread that I had previously been blind to! And it isn’t my fault either. We have been trained to accept this sub- servience and objectification of women as normal. I am grateful to the strong and brave women be-fore me who have spoken up despite the risks to their life, and proclaimed that ‘WOMEN ARE HUMAN!’. Being born and raised in a fundamentalist Christian church meant that, with my new realisation, there were some serious adjustments I needed to make in terms of how I viewed myself and the world around me. The head of every man is Christ, the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God. For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man. Let the women learn in silence with all subjection. But I suf-fer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the hus-band is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto