You Said
"You Said," paper, tape, text, 9.5" by 13.5," by Kiki Loveday.
Say it. Say it OUTLOUD. New York City, Lincoln Center, Velvet Seats. That panel. That room, that moment, that scene. You said it. It's hard to describe the sound of taboo breaking. It's so unexpectedly soft and loud at the same time. It vibrates. The full force of y.o.u. Your voice. All the quiet shaking the room. It shook my soul when you said it. A revolution.
Thank you for saying it.
Xo, Kiki Loveday, June 16, 2023 [End Page 99]
Kiki Loveday is an artist and scholar working at the intersection of history, narrative, and the moving image. Hir creative work has exhibited in venues from The Coney Island Film Festival in New York City to The Virginia Scott Galleries of American Art at The Huntington in Los Angeles. Hir award-winning scholarly work has been published in Feminist Media Histories, Early Popular Visual Culture, The Women Film Pioneers Project, and Framework. S/he co-founded the Women in the Director's Chair Oral History Project at Tisch/NYU and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Smith College, Northampton, MA. S/he is at work on a monograph on Sappho in silent cinema.
