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Rage

Rage is a collection of art and words made during times of overwhelm, sensory overload, rage or stress.

These words hardly get published or printed elsewhere - or at least, they’re never commissioned. We want to change that but we also want to change the way we address it. We want to curate words in the same way art is curated. We curate the words as if they are stand alone pieces and do not edit the texts.

We invite visitors to experience and regard each piece as not only a text to be read, but a text to be considered, observed, seen and heard. An identity that requires attention even if you do not necessarily agree, be open to the possibility of listening to and sharing space with their truth.

Artists don’t want to be an inspiration, a hero or champion. They want to have access to the arts without “their access” being a major part of the journey.

Magical Women’s focus is on curating art and words so they might be shared with wider and more diverse audiences.

Being Less // Debi Gregory

Debi Gregory writes about what it feels like as an autistic female writer in this powerful piece challenging the way neurotypical colleagues misunderstand, shame, gaslight and refuse to acknowledge the autistic female’s lived in truth and voice. It is as if she is deemed too autistic to have something to say; too autistic for the stage; too autistic to be a writer. Magical Women are honoured to be able to platform her first piece with us.

“My feelings don’t always fit the situation. 

If my food is overcooked in a restaurant, I get enraged. 

I want to kill the waiter. But I don’t. 

I politely ask him to take my meal back and bring it to me the way I asked for it. 

I spend my days making myself smaller, More acceptable. And that’s okay, Because at night when I go on stage, I get to experience the world the way I feel it ... 

With indescribable rage and unbearable sadness and huge passion. 

At night, on stage, I get to kill the waiter and dance on his grave. 

And if I can’t do that ... if all I have left Is a life of making myself smaller ... Then I don’t want to live.”
— Aaron Mafrici played by Paul Vogt Grey’s Anatomy, Season 6, Episode 12

I don’t think I’ve ever related more to a quote... This is at the very heart of what it feels like...

I spend my whole life trying to make myself conform; making myself less.

Less dramatic,

less loud,

less emotional,

less erratic,

less passionate,

less impatient...

Just less... 

The only time I can be me and more is on stage...


And I’ve lost that... I’m less... Forever less.


Photograph by Blake Cheek

Photograph by Blake Cheek


I live in a society that has brainwashed me into believing that everything about me is a farce.

Everything about me isn’t about me.

Everything about me is about everyone else, the way they want it, the way they feel about it,

the way they need things...

And if I dare to disagree... If I dare to try to be myself...

Their rage, their incandescent, all consuming, demanding rage is acceptable and righteous

and justified.

But my defence is not. 

If they scream at me,

I can’t respond.

If they hurt me,

I can’t respond.

If they cut me,

I can’t respond.

If they lie about me,

I can’t respond.

If they break me completely, I can’t even react. 

Photograph by Issara Willenskomer


Photograph by Issara Willenskomer

Because they can be all the more... And I have to be all the less.

Written by Debi Gregory

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