The name: WILD TONGUES

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose
 /By any other name would smell as sweet.”
-Shakespeare

I was always outspoken and wild. If it wasn’t by lip it was in my unbrushed salt streaked sun-kissed hair, or my unapologetic bare feet reworking the beat, my home made altered outfit, my unshaven leg hairs, sometimes subtle in the everyday, or forced into a box on occasion, I was undeniably loud and proud the moment I performed. I realised the theatrical stage (or upon future realisation: wherever you made your stage, be it bedroom, schoolyard, gallery, or surfboard) was an acceptable place for a woman to voice her thoughts, feelings, emotions and her vulnerability was celebrated and considered FIERCE...
 
 The stage gave me a platform, a place to share and story-tell.
 My family taught me to stay true to myself and speak my mind.
 In the real world I was being taught otherwise: WOMXN HAVE TONGUES OF KNIVES.
 
 
 
 I then heard the wolf pack's call late in the night, and in a fever I awoke.
Suddenly I started scribbling furiously ˜Wild Tongues"....WILD TONGUES
 This was bigger than me.
 This isn’t  just my struggle.
We are in this together.
 
Womxn have words that can move mountains and sometimes that's a scary thing to listen to. We share love, laughter, heartbreak, tears, pants and shouts of joy. We are all connected and tied to one another and our beautiful universe. I hope to nurture this sense of community and storytelling through WT’s. This is a hive of passion and purpose, to create together and to be our own teachers. I hope that as I continue to write the pages of my life, discovering and rediscovering self and dancing with my many iterations,  I will as a result be able to liberate others to tell their stories loudly and proudly.

"Sometimes my mouth is like a prickly cactus and my tongue's as harsh as sandpaper. My words are often overgrown and in need of a trim
 But it's better to speak my truth than to never say a thing."

 
 This isn’t a new generation thing, this is as old as time. But here we are to tell yet another story, to add to the lineage, to orate our herstory and enlighten those who care to listen.
We are the COLLECTIVE.

~ Samantha Hafey ~
Director, Creator, Writer, Performance Artist, anti-conformist, Non-Box Fitter