Marc Smolowitz
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773 appearances
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first heard Oct 2018
last heard Oct 2022
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It's a process and it's deep collaborative work where we try to share the sort of beauty that comes from gifted, talented, neurodiverse expression and help welcome people into sharing that.
And I think you know, one of the things that a lot of our partners talk about is that it's hard for people to say, I am gifted and I am proud.
And I sort of understand that, right?
It's a you know, gifted is a
Loaded word, it's a loaded concept, it has a lot of social baggage.
This is not a new concept, right?
Which is why we've spent so much time, you know, trying to find other words to describe giftedness, right?
As because we we but I I sort of feel like like that project of finding other words to describe giftedness, like that's the project.
Like that's what the G word documentary is doing, right?
We're we're creating a visual language through film and storytelling.
To bring to life the humanity of gifted expression that I'm noticing in the stories that I've decided to bring into the movie.
And that guess what?
Our exemplar of stories everywhere, right?
So if we believe strongly, which I do, that giftedness expression looks and sounds and behaves in ways that we don't expect, then we have to be open to that.
And I think by inviting joy into the room, we provide.
Many more points of entry and exit into in and out of these communities.
A positive point of entry for me is more welcoming.
It says we're here, you know, we're GTN, get used to it.
Right.
And it's not necessarily meant to be too oppositional in that, in that stance, but but again, it's a point of pride.
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