Authenticity over assimilation - celebrating our differences
Ms. Mohammed |
TEDxLondon
• May 2019
Ms. Mohammed’s performance explores her journey from her time as Dana Jade, to using her government name and becoming Ms. Mohammed. She shares how her intersecting identities of race, culture, gender and sexuality have been used by the music industry and parts of society to “other” and reject her. And how now she uses these multiple identities as a way to centre her music - lyrically, rhythmically and visually. For Ms. Mohammed, it is time for music and the music industry to go beyond its silos, stereotypes and assumptions, and for us to envision a world where marginalised voices, in whichever industry, are not merely existing amidst the status quo - but thriving and celebrated.