‘The people’s microphone’ creates alternative anthems by using voices as echo/amplifIcation, similar to the Occupy movement. Breaking borders of gender; why do we see shame, trauma, mental issues as a negative ‘in need of a cure’? How can we use those elements as power-tools? Shame as rethinking and trauma as activating alternative thinking against capitalist ideas. Non-linear activism told by stories. Maybe you don’t consider yourself an activist, but what your body and mind went through creates a different way of thinking, mental disorder is a construct, a cure is an idea of progression claimed by capitalism. We will work in a group of queer/female people.

By using sound and voice as a conceptual tool, letting other spaces resonate with stories and frequencies, Saskia Burggraaf improvises, telling alternative storylines in a non-linear way as a form of resistance. Trauma and the negative outcome of that, (mental issues) can be a way of rethinking, fragmenting, reconsidering and reconstructing vulnerability without the capitalis claiming of it. Shame as rethinking borders. Sound and resonance used as a tool is the first step to create alternative anthems to find value commitments not relating tocapitalism, but to care and listening.