Many of our holidays revolve around traumas that happened to our people and how we must remember them … - Jill Soloway

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Jill Soloway

Many of our holidays revolve around traumas that happened to our people and how we must remember them in specific ways. The way these stories are told and what we take away from them can change, and do in certain contexts, but overall I am not sure whether Jews want to let go of the narrative of the victim.

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The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.

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Along the way, female filmmakers will have the feeling that they're not good enough. And that's really just a result of being "otherized" from the moment they're born. Keep an eye out for all those insecurities, and even expect them. Borrow white male privilege and just move through the world as if it was created for you. You have to kind of talk yourself into an imaginary space where the world is on your side and expects you to speak and wants you to speak. You have to create that space for yourself over and over again. Every hour sometimes.

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By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others.

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I'm happy to always be included in the list of women. I'd like to be in the sections about female leaders and male leaders. Why not?

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You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.

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