[Blacklabcollective] Banning and burn out

[mick mccann]

I totally understand where youre coming from anju! Life and the problems
people bring to us although all valid can be way too much to take on at
times.
 So the meeting tomorrow we'll talk about the foat banning and the woman
playing the iskra gig who someone has a problem with I guess.

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Anju Singh <aanjusingh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone
>
> I'm not a caregiving type (hence, I'm a technician and don't answer my
> phone) so I'm burning the fuck out on taking care of Graham (it has been 1
> of 7 weeks). I am dropping everything on my plate that isn't my own
> art/music/volunteer work with other poc until September because I can't
> keep up.
>
> I'm bottomlining tonight, Tara is bottomlining the iskra show in July I'm
> promoting, and then that should be it for my black lab stuff. I won't be
> going out much in the next while either.
>
> I'm also unable to take on more sensitive stuff like banning, there is
> someone who doesn't want to be named who says that Foat should be banned
> from black lab and doesn't want him at the next shows. My answer wasn't
> good, I just said, ok ban him, and they said how can I enforce it and I
> said why do we have to enforce it, and then I was like oh, damn I'm so
> burnt out I don't care and they were like ok, but then take it to the
> collective and I agreed. They don't feel comfortable talking to anyone and
> just said they wanted the collective to know that a group of people don't
> want him at shows. Anonymity is important to them.
>
> I also received a complaint about a girl playing the iskra show, but again
> I was like i can't take it on so if anyone wants to navigate that for me,
> id appreciate it.
>
> Going to a cabin on Friday, really need that right now.
>
> Anju
>
>
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> Anju Singh
>
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