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Furzyth

Experiment – Prompt – Exploring Integration

Ajanta Caves, from Archaeological Survey of India. Public Domain

Hello All,

Thank you for your brilliant and open responses to Body Shame Rebellion. Your pieces made us think, talk, delve into self exploration and interrogate hard topics like identity, image and the role of body. If you would like to go through the posts – they are tagged at the bottom.

We have also continued to receive further thought provoking dialogue on #DiversityForReal – again tagged at the bottom.

We would like to take this topic of identity, definition and integration a step forward with our prompt – Furzyth

Furzyth is a made-up word that has no definition as of now (in the languages we know of). I took this rather absurd idea to Ashley Evenson, where I wanted to investigate how we deal with accepting, defining a new word (being) and integrating it into our language via BNG. Supportive that she is – she said run with it. Here, I ask all of you to run with us on this exploratory journey –

I was wondering how we give meaning to something/someone we know nothing of. We see a passerby – what narrative do we give them and what do we base that on? Physicality? Stride? Other mannerisms? Who they are with? Which street is it that we encounter them on? and many other visible and invisible parameters and their combinations. We build a story.

It doesn’t even have to be a person. We see a vase in a charity shop window — what do we make of that ‘poor’ ‘little’ vase. Where did it come from? Does it hold any meaningful history? Is it a discard? Why did the owner get rid of it – because of some kind of pain? Maybe something happened to them/their house or simply because they wanted to remove the excess? Was our vase always an excess? or is this vase lying forgotten on a window pane — a stolen piece? so on…

Furzyth is one such passerby, one such vase. In the languages I know and to the extent I know these languages Furzyth doesn’t mean anything yet. I would invite you to focus on the shape, sound, bends of this word, dig into its subtle curves and with us create its history or future.

I wanted to do this exercise with you to see how we deal with something that we are not familiar with. In true BNG spirit, integrate the word/being Furzyth that is an outsider into our language/tongue/world.

Write a piece/story/poem/essay on Furzyth. Use it as a verb, noun, adjective etc. etc. We are interested in seeing how amongst us we define, interpret, re-interpret, accept something which comes with little (at least for some) to begin with. I would give an example here but that would already adulterate our Furzyth. It would be truly delightful if along with your post you could add (totally optional) –

1) your voice recording of the word Furzyth and what it means to you.

2) a short written description of the meaning or essence you have attached to Furzyth

As we see posts, I am expecting we will evolve and redefine Furzyth. So, if you pick someone else’s meaning as a starting point or see that as the meaning that you think is perfect for your piece, simply tag that person and their work.

Will you please join us on this journey of discovery and integration? Tagging a few writers here but everyone who sees this post is welcome.

Gabriella Salazar, schian H, Yamini MacLean, Johanna Naomi, Anisesh, Brian Fehler, Dennett, wimpy af, Tracy Aston, Zarina Dara 🥀💃🏻, Jenny Justice, Rebeca Ansar, Ashwini Dodani, Shruti Sinha, Samantha Lazar, Jessi Roman, Vaishali Paliwal, Priyanka Srivastava, Christina Ward 🌼, Anish Lamichhane, MD, David S., Austin Briggman, Chiedza Kikumi, Anna Rozwadowska, Jk Mansi, Keara Lou, Michael Stang, Sean Michael, Jessica Archuleta, Sylvia Wohlfarth, J.J. Tung, Radha Chetna Laxhmi, Justcallmejillybean, Maymuuna, Rusty Alderson, Rajesh Vairapandian, Jordyn Schwersky, Shobha Roy, Shaunta Grimes, Shannon Ashley, Felicia C. Sullivan, Rolli, Nadia Davidson, Natalie Frank, Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology), Agnes Louis, Tre L. Loadholt, kurt gasbarra, Sarah Book, Simon Heathcote, G.R. MELVIN, Deborah Christensen

Eager to hear what you have to say. Please add Furzyth as one of the tags in your post

Love, Ashley and Shringi

To be a writer with BNG please leave a comment on our about page.

We request you to please look at some of the work done at BNG on our previous prompt – Body Shame Rebellion. #BodyShameRebellion

More work on Diversity For Real #DiversityForReal

There is genuinely a lot more interesting and path-breaking writing on BNG this month that I would invite all of you to browse through

Some notable links

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