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A Note from the Director
Thank you for attending WAM's digital reading of LETTERS TO KAMALA by Rachel Lynett. This show investigates the intersection of racism and oppression for women in politics and may activate racial distress in your body. In the play Charlene says, "These issues, our lives, what we've survived and what we've lost it's not uneasy. It's heavy." I encourage you to bring mindfulness and compassion for the feelings that will be activated in you and if possible to process your thoughts and feelings in community. I'm grateful for the activism of Patsy Matsu Takemoto Mink, Charlene Mitchell, and Charlotta Bass and for the artists who lifted their stories off the page and gifted me a space to feel my own femininity, courage, rage, empathy and desire to do works that prompt my healing and the healing of my beloved communities.
"I wanted to write a play that explored pride mixed in with caution, a play that questioned our cultural obsession with firsts but also made room for understanding the weight that being "first" carries. Who were the other firsts? What sacrifices did they have to make to get there and what can we ultimately never compromise on?"
