Maxwell Pearce
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317 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
Maxwell Pearce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's a very interesting dance that I'm constantly doing.
Definitely.
And I'm still learning it.
Like the one thing that I can confidently say is that although I have been creating artwork since probably like the third grade or something like that.
Showing in a professional manner and selling work in a professional manner is still on the newer side to me.
Like I've only been operating in that way as an artist for probably the last four to five years, as opposed to creating for the last 25, 20 to 25 years.
So I'm still learning, you know, like what is acceptable in those realms, what is not.
And then also what is like...
What are some rules that I can play with?
Part of anybody's process in getting a full concept of the landscape that they live in is identifying what boundaries are not to be crossed and what boundaries are meant to be expanded for the betterment of whatever it is, that thing that you're doing.
Obviously, you don't want to compromise the well-being of anybody or any space, but there certainly are boundaries, more so social boundaries, that we may be able to experiment with for the betterment of everybody.
That's a great segue into kind of the point that I always try to make, which is that the stereotype—
that places athletes or pigeonholes athletes into being one dimensional is exponentially higher for black athletes.
And that is because of the incorporation of the fact that they are black.
So if you compare how black athletes are considered and afforded space to do other things in comparison to their non-black counterparts, it is very different.
Particularly in the WNBA, you see a lot of that because they live in, I think, the most complex social intersection because the W is predominantly full of black and brown women.
many of which who are LGBTQ+.
So you have the intersections of misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism, all of those things that are socially just like the floodgates are wide open, you know, and make them subject to that because of the platform that we can watch them on.
So, you know, like, much of my work really stands and puts a spotlight on Black women in particular, because I definitely can appreciate how, although they sit at the forefront of a lot of the fights against these different forms of oppression, at the same time, they're also, like,
at the dead center of, you know, like a lot of people's targets or a lot of systems targets.
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