Legibility

By Marija Mitic

I performed 
to earn your love 

I failed 

I performed 
to earn your attention 

I failed 

I performed
to earn your acceptance 

I failed 
again 

I kept on performing
to access normalcy 

I succeeded 
I became legible 

and now 
40 years later
I know 

I am not normal

I never was


Marija Mitic Biography
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Marija Mitic is an interdisciplinary researcher, educator, and dance movement therapist with a background in medicine. Her work brings personal experience into conversation with embodied, intimate, and political questions, exploring the spaces where they intersect.