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I am Stacey Kirby I am a Durham based

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artist in the area 919 show at the

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National Museum of Art at Duke

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University one of the reasons I started

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creating political work is based on some

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experiences I've had in North Carolina

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as a queer female I think one of the

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moments that is very prominent in my

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mind is driving around Durham during the

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campaigning for and against amendment

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one which did ban gay marriage North

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Carolina in seeing those placed in

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really anonymous weird areas not in

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people's front yards but in kind of like

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general public spaces almost as if

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people didn't want to claim that they

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were for a divisive amendment in North

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Carolina it just felt hurtful for me

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that these people that held these types

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of perspectives and support for such a

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horrible thing in my opinion would not

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come out and have a conversation about

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it wanted to kind of hide and I don't

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think they fully even understood what

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the amendment meant you know on all all

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sides and so that just felt really

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horrible for me as an individual part of

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a community that needs support in love

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and that's all we want to do to you know

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support each other and love each other I

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use humor as a way to put everyone on

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the same level in the work including

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myself I think when you make people

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laugh it opens a part of them up that

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allows you to have a more serious

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conversation later maybe I am wearing a

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very short haircut that's very stylized

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with product no earrings I have 50's to

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70's style glasses on bold black frames

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I'm wearing a black coat with a tie and

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a white collared button down shirt and

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black slacks and black shoes and black

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socks and I have my magnetic name tag

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that labels me as a chief precinct

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officer as Stacy L curvy so it's very

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much a uniform for the bureaucratic

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system or 4i feels kind of like federal

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government not a lot of personality very

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just simple black-and-white

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straightforward clean cuts very

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presentable with my clipboard yes

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I always have to have a prop that

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anchors me