The Dos & Don'ts of Reclaiming Words
I am writing this post on the 80th anniversary of D-Day . With world leaders and people around the world and on social media honoring the brave sacrifice of those who saved the world from nazism, it seems even more fitting to be performing this wonderfully sarcastic work of Mel Brooks —a show that is meant to be deeply offensive along with being wildly entertaining. There are so many reasons why it was awarded more Tony awards than any other show ! (Photo: Marcevan Costanzo, Jason Maur, and Bella Renee Delgado rehearse a scene from "The Producers" at Brookfield Theatre - photo by Tom Heydenburg) Because I rely on those more clever than me for insights and am also an obnoxiously proud mom of an incredibly smart adult, I would like to share this excerpt from "The Other N-Word" by Emma Okell originally published in SURGE in 2014: ...I’ve heard (the word "nazi") more times than I want to count and not as a way to describe someone who commits genocide. Sometime