No I felt intimated on that panel because I am venue-less and would love to be associated with a theatre.

In fact I had to ask The NSW Writer’s Centre to adjust the programme which had placed me as “New Theatre’s” and I had to admit that I was not New Theatre’s anything… and I hadn’t been.

I was writing this as a two way reflection – mainly to say that I may have felt invisible and ignored and illegitimate – but that those very feelings are very common of, and indicative of indy artists, especially those not housed within a building.

I was also writing in reponse to the feedback (on the day from several writers) that I was “in a battle against the men to be heard” etc..

The main issue I regularly confront is that whenever I talk or write or say anything it’s either regarded as a feminist statement or that I’m representing “women” and that I’m battling the boys. I’m actually representing me and the truth is I’m battling my own feelings of illigitimacy, my own feelings of homelessness, my fear of being invisible – not because I’m a woman – but because I live project to project without the shelter of a “venue.”

Like most of the indy artists in the world.

And I wanted to give a new reading of that panel.