What Is It to Be Oneself?

Artist Jade de Montserrat wrote about liberatory books and TV shows for Serpentine’s online magazine. I edited her contribution for a short online format, while preserving her voice and key ideas.

Serpentine’s Education team asked Dr Jade de Montserrat to create a resource, ‘What Is It to Be Oneself?’, which helps young people to explore identity. Published at the same time, this reading list shares more of Jade’s research and inspiration for her resource.

The Education team asked me to edit Jade’s reflections on seven key works down from 3,000 to 1,000 words. I sculpted her many rich ideas into a succinct flow and simplified the piece's syntax for online reading.