I think I realized today that Broadway is not the hill I want to die on.

I don’t care to preserve any element of Broadway. I think it should be decentralized if not totally abolished.

I don’t care to be singing and dancing and acting in beautiful costumes on a giant stage if it’s for the consumption and profit of old white folks.

I don’t think that inserting diversity into the system will undo it’s structure as a parasitic, inaccessible, abuse-protecting entity. Diversity may be harm reduction at best, exploitative tokenization and participation in capitalism at worst.

Theater, similar to education and healthcare and housing, should be free to the public and funded by the people through government distribution.

I really think it’s impossible to have a revolution without targeting capitalism as the core issue. The struggle for workers rights and unionization is evident in years and years of global resistance.

Actors and theater makers are excellent at the (necessary) performance element of resistance in the form of protests etc. But how many of the folks at today’s protest would actually strike against their employers were they on a Broadway contract right now?

How are we giving tools beyond showing up? There is a difference between mobilizing and organizing. And it should not be on Black folks to educate and/or figure it out.

If there is going to be a real reckoning with the Broadway industry, it must go beyond getting an invite into the room. I don’t care about being in the room where it happens (forgive my reference).

I intend to learn from union activists, past and present, and really understand how to protect employees from employers. Really understand what theater originally was, which was the common folks’ medium of resistance and joy, not an exclusive club for rich folks’ pleasure/profit.