If I was talking to a MAGA person. I would try and do that thing where you try and see yourself in the other, this comes up in all sorts of different religions, spiritual modes, things like that. Allegedly, it comes up in Christianity.

And I think that remembering that our neutral when we're babies, when we're very small, it's a place of love.

And it's easy to lose hope with a MAGA person saying, just trying to encourage a framework of love if you are looking at destroying other people as being representative of your "righteousness".

What if you switched out that frame?

What if you were coming from a place of love?

Does this jive or does it not jive?

These are just fundamentals, basics that children tiny children understand. But seems like a few million people need a refresher, so starting there.

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What's Your Most Recent Memory of Racism? Gin Hammond reveals...

So you know, there's something every day about racism.

One thing that is still reverberating in me right now, however, is a personal relationship I have with somebody who is a darker skinned black woman, and she has basically lost it….

It's very hard to be the sensitive artist that she is and be in this world as a dark-skinned black woman right now.

And so she literally talks about putting her mind someplace else far away.

Checking out that, that sort of thing that, that happens to, like survivors of s#xual ab#se, who disassociate but also. She's lashing out to those closest to her especially if they're lighter skinned.

So it's an ongoing thing that doesn't need to exist purely because of racism.

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What are my first memories of racism?

It depends on the kind because there's so many different kinds. There's a vast array, right?

There's just feeling like looks were odd when I was a kid. Me being little and held by my dad. I think my dad got a lot of attention, especially when it's just the two of us, right?

So this black man with this little white baby girl, and people are like.

"Does she belong to you?"

But I know that I was protected from a lot of that, but I remember feeling the weirdness, right? But then there were things later on...

There's this social media thing, 4th Freshest McCury.

Interracial family. The youngest daughter, whose nickname is Pudge, came out a recessive gene wonder like me.

I say in the play I mentioned how my brother was called names. I never was. I remember this kid called Kenny, who was a family friend, Kenny, and he called my brother the N word.

I think they were younger than 10. Where did Kenny learn that?

There were talks between the families, summit negotiations, all of that. And I think a mutual non-aggression pact was reached. But it was definitely icky.

It's it's. There are a lot of families out there that have siblings of different skin tones.

Even though I had a lighter skin sibling you might not get those words, you love your sibling and it those poison darts press into your skin as well.

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The Most Exciting Theater moment for the Audience

A moment that I'm really excited about audiences responding to at film festivals and beyond is the moment where I am doing a fake TikTok video dressed up in who knows what ancient clothing. I just kind of pulled down a box of costumes and asked my 14 year old son, "Hey son, you want to do a video of me doing this?"

And I come around the corner and like in this Cleopatra wig.

There's a point that I'm trying to make about how new cultures and communities arise and disappear, right?

When I'm doing a fake TikTok dressed up as an ancient person doing a video about results of their 23andme50bc saying things like, "Oh I thought I was half Phoenician but it turns out I'm Ottoman, and my husband thought he was Macedonian, but he's Hittite.

Just reminding people that through time there have been different groups and different groups, and there are going to be different groups; and those groups were made up of different people.

I always think about the New Eurekans. being one of the current groups that are, that are really coming together as a culture and identity, a language, a genetic makeup, right? And those sorts of things are going to keep happening.

So, yeah, don't stress.

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Gaming has a passionate fan base. Share a Pro Tip You've learned about Passionate Gaming Fans from your time as a Gaming Voice Actor

Something that I've learned about the fans is that they are meticulous in how they are receiving the voices of the characters.

They have to hear the voices so many times that they're hearing those voices when they're not even playing sometimes. And that makes how you approach it very different from say film, TV, things like that, right?

You can't be too musical, for example, because if you're always hearing the same musical pattern over and over again when you're playing, it can get really annoying.

And so if you're an actor, a tip is if the situation allows you to do two takes of the same line.

Something that you can do that's worked for me before is you can do the the take of the line that shows, yeah, I know how to act. I can put a lot of bells and whistles into this thing and the feeling.

And then the second take, and yes, I know that I'm doing this for a video game.

So I'm going to compress all of that, sort of like the compression option in audio software. I'm going to compress all that.

So you know that I'm aware that when we're in session, I can't be going all over the place. I'm going to keep it tight in a way that the players can listen to over and over again and appreciate because they listen to it over and over again, they're going to get the nuance.

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When someone comes to you for dialect coaching, can you walk us through the steps of the process?

So when somebody comes to me for dialect coaching, whether it's an individual actor or a theater's hiring me or whatever, of course, do a lot of research, as much research as I need to do.

And I chart things out.

I have all of these sheets. that I made but my favorite is what's called the listen for sheet, which was inspired by one of my teachers, Nancy Hofack.

And in the listen for sheet, not only do you get a sense of what's going on with the articulator.

So for example, for much of Southern Ireland, a lot of people have some things in common where the cheeks go in towards the molars and the, the jaw slides forward a little bit and, and your air pressure gets really high things like that.

Right. And when you create the frame the sort of negative space, then you're creating a filter for the sound to to travel through.

And just like when you're holding your body in a, in a certain position, right? Changing those articulators changes. How you feel, it changes your emotional chemistry. So that does so much of the heavy lifting.

But then there are other things, like what's the, the texture, right?

Is it a flutey sound?

I don't even know what that was. Or is it like when you think of the old style, Parisian man? You know all of those kinds of things. Pitch, rate, volume. And then we get back into other things that I really love.

Like our, our gestures. a part of it, right? You can't do an Italian accent without the gestures. It's just but the, the other bit that I enjoy the most is worldview. When you're able to get into you know, these are broad strokes, arguably essentialist, but what, what are some of the primary values in this culture, that culture?

Is it, is it about being in harmony? With the people around you, for example, which might affect the gentleness or the harshness of your voice if harmony is not where it's at. And even gender can really affect how people sound different. Like if we go like real old school Brooklyn, right? The guys, they'd be speaking from the chest, lips forward, et cetera, right?

And, and a lot of the girls would have stinky face.

Even if they're from the same neighborhood. So yeah, that's part of the fun of dialect coaching and trying to break it down and then, then trying to figure out based on your actor's learning style, how best to, to hand it over to them.

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As a voice coach, Can you share a story about a performance problem and how you helped them?

I helped a few people with issues that manifested physically, which is to say they were having issues with either an element of their work or how the piece was being directed, how they were being directed, and very often because of something called the vagus nerve which Ties in very much with all of the vocal mechanisms.

People can have a stiff neck or they start to lose their voices, things like that.

And so when I am able to identify that it's something like that going on, the best thing that I can do as a voice teacher is simply to listen ask some respectful questions and help the performer feel like the power is. More in their hands because they usually feel like power's been taken away from them.

And the, this chakra here, it's the fifth chakra. It's creativity, communication, self-expression.

And when we feel locked down there, a lot of people tend to grind their teeth or start to get TMJ issues.

They start to click, or there's just a lot of what are called hard glottal attacks, things like that. So. It's almost like we're, we're self sabotaging, you know, hurting ourselves when we don't feel like we can open up here.

So the first thing is, the person has to be listened to, that self expression needs to be present in the room before anything else can open up.

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Some of my racial heroes are.... An inspiring conversation with Gin Hammond

One of the people that I think about most regularly, who's a hero for me. Marian Anderson, the opera singer. First of all, a lot of people told her that, you're black, you can't sing opera. It's just not done. It's a Western European art form and all of that.

And she defied all of that through her art.

And she inspired millions of people, particularly on the day when she was joined by a white ally, Eleanor Roosevelt who quit the D. A. R. (Daughters of the American Revolution) because they would not let Marian Anderson sing in a building that was owned by the D.A. R.

So she was like, “Girlfriend, I've got connections. So let's go to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. I'll get this all set up for you.”

And the crowd was massive.

Eleanor Roosevelt was by Marian Anderson's side as she sang a live radio program. She was able to truly shine in that moment, I suspect also because she knew it was about more than her. This was about everybody. This was about uplifting the spirits of her people.

I'm sure it uplifted the spirits and perhaps changed the minds of people outside of her community. Paul Robeson's one of the other ones. They were contemporaries.

Also Audre Lorde. She says, “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important, whether or not I'm afraid.”

So I try to keep these inspirations all around me.

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