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In recent years, cinematic portrayals of police brutality, slavery, segregation and other forms of black suffering have increasingly been met with eye-rolls from black people themselves. Audiences have begun to notice that although the “anti-racist” narrative genre is exponentially expanding, the stories that are being told are similar. From Orange is the New Black to When
Kymberly Pinder has been named dean of the Yale School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut, one of the country's top M.F.A. programmes. In the school's 150-year history, she will be the first woman of color and the second woman to occupy the position. Pinder will take over as dean on July 1st, succeeding Marta…
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Western men have come to the degree of diving women and classifying them to better dominate them. White bourgeois women are seen as more feminine, evolved, delicate, the muses, and the ideal standard of beauty. This happened during the process of colonisation and enslavement. When Europeans transported and put their values and cultures on the rest of the world, imposing ways of thinking, acting, and relating. This shift from the medieval period to bourgeois capitalism following colonisation provoked a transformation in the role of women in society. White bourgeois women were locked up in thei...
I grew up in LA, raised by Mexican Jewish parents. I used to self identify as a Mexi-jew. I grew up playing piano, guitar, bass, drums, ukulele and briefly cello! Then I was in a punk band for most of high school where I played bass and sang. I recently wrote and directed my first short film Jelly about the exploitation of social movements for personal gain. Coming out sooooon! I’m a Scorpio rising which apparently “makes a lot of sense.” I’m a libra sun, but because it’s in my 12th house it’s not that present in my personality the way scorpio is.