[Blacklabcollective] Banning and burn out

[Anju Singh]

Ok good call

On Tuesday, 21 June 2016, mick mccann <nomoreroads at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>
>>
>> --
>> Anju Singh
>>
>>
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Anju Singh
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