flower girl no. 2, margaret bowland
one of my favorite contemporary artists*
Errol Morris interviews people about their favorite movies, for the 2002 Oscars. NEVER STOP GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THINGS, ERROL MORRIS.
this is some kind of wonderful.
So if you speak to a woman who is otherwise occupied, you’re sending a subtle message. It is that your desire to interact trumps her right to be left alone. If you pursue a conversation when she’s tried to cut it off, you send a message. It is that your desire to speak trumps her right to be left alone. And each of those messages indicates that you believe your desires are a legitimate reason to override her rights.
roseanne barr on the lack of change in the tv industry
Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in.
ya know, you don’t really earn your gardening stripes until you’re elbow deep in bugs and worms…
total recall remake
our ideas:
quaid - chiwetel ejiofor
cohaagen - john malkovich (or james cromwell)
melina - gina torres
laurie - eliza dushku
richter - freddy rodriguez
ETA: now we’re also considering michelle rodriguez for melina; jeremy renner for quaid.
my friend and i are sitting here trying to do dream casting for a total recall remake.
update to follow.
me. now.
no, but seriously
this is where the cult of respectability is a proven failure. this is the moment where black folks can stop blaming working class black folk, loose women and young folk.
because if black women have been dressing proper and keeping our leg clothes and being “good role models”,
if after literally a cool hundred plus years white men still think black women are basically monsters, even without knowing us, and are still taking our name and our shit without so much as a fucking thank you?
can we acknowledge NOW, at this point in 2011, that no NAACP award or banquet or black girls rock special or church schedule or status as the preacher’s or professor’s or lawyer’s or doctor’s wife or full length skirts or socially-enforced chastity belt is going to make racism go away??
that images in times square of women with long nails with daisy dukes is NOT the cause of racism, but racist white people are?
that my v card status and marital status is NOT, i repeat NOT the linchpin upon which white supremacy turns?
can we acknowledge that acting “proper”, when the definition of “proper” is determined by folks who are NOT invested in our advancement but in fact are rather dedicated to prohibiting it, will NOT protect us, will not end supremacy?
SERIOUSLY. cause we as a people been on this “act right black women and everything will be alright” tip since Reconstruction and i think the fact that racism is still like, a *problem* or whatever should maybe give us a reason to be like, hey! maybe respectability ain’t got shit to do with it! so we can stop black black women for everything and put steve harvey out of a job YAAAAAAAAYYYY *throws sarcasm confetti about*
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maybe respectability ain’t got shit to do with it.
lawdamercy.
'New research suggests white audiences tend to stay away from movies featuring minorities due to the assumption that the film “wasn’t made for me.”'
shocking. new research confirms what people have been saying amongst their own for years.
Jay's Other Stuff: Feeling mixed emotions, and not feeling inclined to judge anyone...
Feeling mixed emotions, and not feeling inclined to judge anyone else’s emotions. Not even the “dude, we totally killed him, SPRING BREAK!!!” kids I see on tv, even if I feel uncomfortable watching them. I cannot presume to know what’s inspiring it, or how each of them feels connected with the…
We’ve lost an understanding of what racism means in this country. We’ve forgotten that it’s race hate combined with power. A white person being harassed in a black neighborhood is not experiencing racism—that person can call the police and get a response. My students refer to anything other than whatever they think of as Martin Luther King’s dream as racism. Like with so many other words, conservatives have won the rhetorical war. We need to define racism as what it actually is and reclaim the rhetorical ground on moving toward real equality.
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Word. Most white people get so pissed off when you try to explain this to them. (via thisrawcoldlife, clingtomymouth-deactivated20100)
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