i’ve been meaning to watch a number of recent and very critically acclaimed films to catch up with everyone else. i just watched inglourious basterds and there will be blood. both were not very good. what’s the deal ya’ll, i can’t trust reviews anymore. this reminds me of when my boyfriend and i went to see silver linings playbook expecting it to be great, and spent the whole film saying, “what the fuck is this”*
*inglourious basterds and there will be blood are significantly better than silver linings playbook, just for the record. still not great though.
All ya’ll best get down to City of Craft this weekend and say hi to the Falconwright gals!! #chchcheckitout #whwhwhatsitallabout (at The Theatre Centre)
On Thursday August 14th, 2014, Feminsta Jones called for a National Moment of Silence (NMOS) to pay ‘respect to fatal victims of police shootings and brutality’. New Orleans, a (for now…) majority black city with a long history of police violence…
“Look, I understand wanting to show up and support, but white people need to understand that this symbolic act of raising your hands in a position of surrender is meant to illustrate how black people are violently targeted by police because of their race. If you don’t experience that, you should not mimic the gesture in an attempt at “solidarity”. It is centering yourself in a narrative that you cannot tell because of the protection your white privilege gives you. It shows a lack of understanding about the nature of systemic state sanctioned violence against black bodies. In fact, the day after the rally I was talking to a white male neighbor who had attended the rally (and marched with his hands up chanting ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’) who expressed that he thought the gesture was “too passive”. I had to literally break it down for him that the point of the gesture was so show that a non-aggressive surrender wasn’t enough to save Mike Brown because his blackness made him a threat, disposable, or both. In adopting this pose, Black people aren’t demonstrating passive surrender to oppression, they are communicating that they can make all attempts to appear non-threatening, but the historic and contemporary vilification of blackness in America has made the real danger the perception of their blackness as inherently threatening.”
