But the art monster problem, more primary, nagged at me for years before my son was born; it was more to do with having grown up a white American female at the end of the twentieth century, groomed to be appropriate, exacting, friendly and accommodating, as pretty and as small as I could make myself, yet filled with rage at not being allowed to

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there are three cultural ‘roles’ that people are commonly divided into, namely ‘producer’, ‘participant’, and ‘observer’. In recent years, as social media has taken over so much of our social lives, the role of cultural participant feels as if it’s fading away. Herded into the opposing camps of producer and observer, we feel increasingly under... See more