Week 7 Takeaways

1. Privilege is not black and white. The are many ways in which we can be privileged and all of these different ways are in conversation for us to better understand one another's individual experience.
2. It is important as artivists that we make work consciously.  When we stop asking ourselves the hard questions and having open and thorough conversation with ourselves and our collaborators we stop serving the people we are trying to help.
3. Recognise power in pre-existing structures and use them to your advantage. Being a complete anarchist can only take you so far, it is by infiltrating the system that we can make real change. 
4. We must keep the people we are serving at the centre of the work. When we get lost in our own practice we may do more damage than good.
5. We must be brave in our art making practice.
6. Change can start from within a community. Do not shy away from preaching to the choir, sometimes that can be the change itself.
7. It is incredibly important to actively listen and try to understand.
8. Human experience is expansive.
9. Art can make real life change.
10. It is within my capacity to make it happen, I just have to put in the work.