Rebekah Lisciandro Rebekah Lisciandro i(25079582 works by)
Gender: Non-binary
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1 Change Is Coming; Change Is Here Rebekah Lisciandro , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Sūdō Journal , August no. 4 2022; (p. 88-93) 'I have a very complicated relationship with my art. I am, by nature or by trauma (or both) a competitive perfectionist type, with the added bonus of low self-esteem. So when I look at my art, I always think it’s not good enough. In some ways, it’s an accurate enough assessment. I never had good technical skills, even when I was practicing my art actively, and the appeal of my pieces have always been in their imagination. My art has typically been categorised as naïve art, sometimes even outsider art, depending on the piece, in ways that often make me feel self-concious. So, below are the caveats I present these pieces with. I can’t help it' 

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1 Down and Out in Fat City Rebekah Lisciandro , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Sūdō Journal , August no. 4 2022; (p. 79-87) 'I first read Fat City in 2013. At the time it was an article by Dr Karen Hitchcock in The Monthly but since then it has been republished in stand-alone format by Black Inc. In it, Hitchcock drew on her work with morbidly obese1 patients in order to address the question of who is responsible for the spread of obesity in contemporary society. I clicked a Facebook link, read the article numbly and clicked out feeling uncomfortable. Hitchcock claimed she didn’t dislike fat people, yet reading her article made me feel ashamed. I couldn’t explain why, so I pushed my embarassment down. No one else seemed to have read it that way, and I suspected the response to giving voice to my feelings would be, “Yes, but you are fat. You’re being oversensitive.” I tried to forget it, but the article continued to haunt me, even influencing my choice for an honours research topic.' (Introduction)
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