The question that Anne-Fay asks herself, whether she can stand for the rights of a black woman with white skin, is also discussed in the performance. “I don’t know if I can say yes to it, but it’s also my story and my mother’s story. But we have white privilege and other people are going to listen to us. So on the one hand it feels: I have to do this. But on the other hand, I wonder: am I taking the place of a black person? I feel that conflict very much and then it is also your mother, a black woman who has never spoken up and who in this project does. She said, because of your courage to speak out now if something happens that is not right, I try to use my white privilege well by telling this story.”
A white woman searches for the family history of her black ancestors
