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X / I Can See The Future (2022) Dir. Sebastian Sdaigui
TYLER JAMES WILLIAMS GQ Hype (April 2023)
Afghan girls practice Taekwondo moves during a martial arts class in Herat in January 2013.
it's already been said but it's crazy how female artists in the 90s wanted nothing to do w the feminist label and yet the message they sent through their music was actually empowering due to its rawness and authenticity while nowadays everyone tries too hard to be a feminist and an ally and they just come off as fake and bland bc it's all this sugarcoated liberal white feminism #girlboss barbie 2023 and the worst part is ppl actually buy into that but get scared when they see anything sinead oconnor did
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the famed Nigerian author behind Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), Americanah (2013), and other works has once again expressed her support for transphobia. In a November 14 Guardian interview on the occasion of winning a Women’s Prize for Fiction award (a book prize regarded as transphobic after asking nonbinary shortlist nominee, Akwaeke Emezi, for information on their sex as “defined by law”), Adichie defended J.K. Rowling’s notoriously transphobic June 2020 essay as “a perfectly reasonable piece.” It’s perhaps unsurprising that Adichie had no quarrel with Rowling’s stance: She herself once answered an interviewer’s question about whether trans women are women by saying “trans women are trans women.” In the recent Guardian interview, Adichie brushed off the backlash to her previous transphobic comments as evidence of “the American liberal orthodoxy,” suggesting that both she and Rowling are victims of a “cruel and sad” cancel culture.
Adichie has been heralded as groundbreaking and revolutionary by the likes of Beyoncé, but going to bat for Rowling serves to further highlight that her work, when compared to the inclusive feminist canon she aims to be a part of, is often itself trans-exclusionary. Take, for instance, Adichie’s epistolary 2017 book, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, which uses letters to a friend to articulate her thoughts on feminist politics, raising daughters, and teaching independence. The book’s goal is ultimately undermined by the static, violent way in which she regards trans women. In the book, Adichie’s call to consider and question your own and others’ language (“Teach her to question language…. But to teach her that, you will have to question your own language”) comes across as ironic given her unwillingness to even engage in critique of her own words; instead, in response to criticism, she uses the tired argument of being martyred by “cancel culture,” sentiments shared by problematic people everywhere.
Furthermore, Adichie’s suggestion to “question our culture’s selective use of biology as ‘reasons’ for social norms” feels willfully ignorant when considered alongside her transphobia. She asserts that men are often considered innately superior based on biological features of strength and size— why wouldn’t this argument apply to trans folks being able to self-identify? Adichie’s argument that gender is socially defined via biological sex is a reinforcement of exclusionary social norms of who gets to be a woman. Trans women aren’t “real” women as justified by our society’s narrow application of biology, Adichie argues via historical distinctions between “women born female” versus “women born male.” And despite trans women who have shown exceptional grace in educating Adichie and and “calling her in,” when speaking about trans women, the author continues to subjectively apply biology (“A trans woman is a person born male and a person who…experienced the privileges that the world accords men”) over the lived testimony of trans women like Laverne Cox who are forced to constantly defend their identity and testify about their suffering in the face of this violence.
1. Chungking Sunday by Eve Arnold (1979)
2. Looking for Langston (dir.by Isaac Julien, 1989)
3. Happy Together (dir.by Wong Kar Wai, 1997)
4. Tom at the Farm (dir.by Xavier Dolan, 2013)
thinking about horror genres and indigenous readings again... the home invasion genre is largely the settler's fear of being colonized
what if someone forced themselves into your house and killed your whole family and sat at the dining table grinning while their own family arrived and all you can do is try to resist it even if they try to kick you out or straight up murder you. while they raided your kitchen cabinets and pretended they'd always been there
Help a black trans girl eat this week🏳️⚧️✨
I really hate to do this but i’m really fucked up. After paying bills & my debts + rent I literally only have enough in my bank account to get my metrocard this week. I’m humbly asking y’all for $75 for groceries + $20 so I can grab lunch on my breaks this week. I totally get it if you don’t have it to give or just don’t want to, I just ask that y’all please boost the shit outta this so I can get my immediate needs taken care of❤️ Thanks again, y’all!
Venmo: @miss-brie-nicole
Please boost if you can! I only have enough in my account to get breakfast for tomorrow, I’d really like to place a grocery order tonight🙏🏾 literally anything helps!
self proclaimed leftists with entire graduate degrees on twitter not understanding that tourism in places like latin america and the caribbean is a form of neocolonialism even in places where the national economy is dependent on it. just because the government is making money off of ur lil excursions and hotel stays doesn’t mean regular citizens are, especially in your fave ‘tropical getaway spots’. the fact that sandals wanted to build an entire resort in tobago where my family lives might sound great for the economy or whatever until you realize that they would’ve closed off several acres of land and made it inaccessible to non-tourists which is fucking insane thing to even propose on such a small island. like i’m sorry but do you really think my family is grateful when you crackers come to visit during the winter?? do you really think your presence adds value to their lives?? when the govt invests money in ports but not paving the fucking roads anywhere that’s not downtown/vacation home territory?? you white losers need to put down ur marx for like half a sec and pick up a small place by jamaica kincaid. like lol if you wanna be a tourist be a tourist but don’t fucking act like anyone who refers to it as a contemporary form of colonialism is doing too much. ESPECIALLY when this sentiment is legit coming directly from the people living in the getaways you love to visit. i genuinely don’t understand how y’all can grasp the “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism” shit but can’t understand this.
tourists visit a place where the livelihoods of the 5% of the population they actually interact with are dependent on how well they’re able to kiss their asses and make them feel like they’re the most important people in the world and somehow they genuinely believe that this translates to all of the locals actually liking, respecting, and needing them.
THE MATRIX (1999) dir. The Wachowskis + IMDb trivia — The Matrix was released 24 years ago on March 31, 1999
street fashion of seniors in Shanghai by 老年时装俱乐部