âI donât want to feel like itâs only me. I know itâs not only me, because there are others out thereâŠâ âI Donât Protest, I Just Dance In My Shadowâ is a short visual essay film by artist animator, Jessica Ashman, about navigating the visual art and animation world as a black face in a white space. Using animation and recorded interviews of eight other women of colour artists, âI Donât Protest, I Just Dance In My Shadowâ is an abstract confessional from the director herself: a visualisation of the joy, frustration, wishes and dreams of what it feels like to be a black women and a woman of colour artist, creating and existing.