The space we inhabit with young people and the community is a contested space. Young people are unfortunately negatively stereotyped and scapegoated and so The council like to own the positive change stories that spring up around the work. The institutional church like to own the good news stories, but we refuse to pimp out the lived experience of young people to earn a
supposed place at these tables. Like any project we could tell these stories that would have you weeping in a quiet moment, or shock you with stories of daring do and risk, it would certainly grow our profile and funding base. but paying these games to illicit a response simply builds walls of us and them, both for us a teller and you as a hearer so instead we call these walls
to dust.