Lameka Fox By Itaysha Jordan By The Washington Post September 2020

How can you even say that the writers ruined Klaus's character.... every second of him on screen was prefection.... him having a cult? Iconic. Getting drunk with Allison and Vanya? They did THAT. he was THE MOMENT this season I WONT TAKE CRITICISAM..!

Cinema without people: Fight Club (1999, David Fincher, dir.)

The Face of Another , Hiroshi Teshigahara , 1966

A metamorfose dos pássaros (Catarina Vasconcelos, 2020)

body positivity thats just like “dont worry men will still have sex with you” ... like girl who is that helping

““It’s so difficult to manoeuvre,” he says, exhaling deeply, visibly calibrating the level of professional diplomacy to display. “You get yourself involved in projects and you’re not necessarily going to like everything. [But] what I would say to Disney is do not bring out a black character, market them to be much more important in the franchise than they are and then have them pushed to the side. It’s not good. I’ll say it straight up.” He is talking about himself here – about the character of Finn, the former Stormtrooper who wielded a lightsaber in the first film before being somewhat nudged to the periphery. But he is also talking about other people of colour in the cast – Naomi Ackie and Kelly Marie Tran and even Oscar Isaac (“a brother from Guatemala”) – who he feels suffered the same treatment; he is acknowledging that some people will say he’s “crazy” or “making it up”, but the reordered character hierarchy of The Last Jedi was particularly hard to take. “Like, you guys knew what to do with Daisy Ridley, you knew what to do with Adam Driver,” he says. “You knew what to do with these other people, but when it came to Kelly Marie Tran, when it came to John Boyega, you know fuck all. So what do you want me to say? What they want you to say is, ‘I enjoyed being a part of it. It was a great experience…’ Nah, nah, nah. I’ll take that deal when it’s a great experience. They gave all the nuance to Adam Driver, all the nuance to Daisy Ridley. Let’s be honest. Daisy knows this. Adam knows this. Everybody knows. I’m not exposing anything.“”

— John Boyega: ‘I’m the only cast member whose experience of Star Wars was based on their race’ by Jimi Famurewa, GQ September 2020.

“It is far too easy—as the reluctant inhabitant of one of the most beautiful, expensive, and problematic cities in the world, as the naturalized citizen of a country that tries to kick dirt over its bloody history, as a hedonist seduced by oysters and cashmere sweaters—to see only the castle on the hill and not the thickets of bone we trod through to arrive at it. I am all too capable of moving with blinkers on. The hyper-compressed grief of living in this age means, paradoxically, that it is hard to give grief its due—not five seconds in a news reel but whole pages and chapters and volumes of grief.”

— C Pam Zhang, from “When Your Inheritance is to Look Away”

Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang, 1927

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Tonight (March 17 2021) in Atlanta, at least eight workers are dead after a series of targeted shootings in massage spas. The shooting is the latest in escalating Anti-Asian hate crimes, which have increased nearly 150% over the past year alone.

Below are a few links to organizations to consider supporting, all of whom are fighting for the rights of AAPI, as always feel free to add on any (credible) links or updates:

Gofundme for the AAPI Community Fund

Stop AAPI Hate

Asian Americans Advancing Justice

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