Even if you’re not a birder or nature lover, the final call makes this worth watching.
Christmas: Celebrating an unmarried teenage mom giving birth in a stable, to a baby who grew up to be a prominent activist for peace, love and anti-capitalist values; who preferred the company of honest prostitutes to that of the religious elite; who partook in radical direct action against the banking system, and was publicly executed as an enemy of state. My prayer today is: let his wisdom guide all who call themselves christians in this world.
by one of my sheroes “pop culture pirate” Elisa Kreisinger
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Work like The Help is racially-easy. And we all know the recipe: Develop code words and people may call you complex. Add “heroic” Black characters and you will be applauded for being well-intentioned. Add a couple of white characters that then find their souls and you just may get a movie out of it. Tell a sanitized Black story through the eyes of an innocent White woman — will get you an Oscar.
- Blanca E. Vega
in “Choosing Between “The Help” or “Faces at the Bottom of the Well”: On Reproducing Racially-Easy Work or Constructing Courageously.”
http://raceworkracelove.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/choosing-between-the-help-or-faces-at-the-bottom-of-the-well-on-reproducing-racially-easy-work-or-constructing-courageously/
“I became interested in the Civil Rights struggle out of necessity to survive”
(Source: bonaventurer, via blackfeminismlives)
Day 26: Document Someone You Love #30DaysofGOOD
strugglingtobeheard replied to your post: lol someone made an exact duplicate of my blog called “dumbthingsblackpeoplesay”, stole all my information, my exact wurds and errythang.what the fuck? that’s the most ridiculous thing they could do. they are the ones who are fucking bat shit crazy anyways… ugh. jeeze.The funny thing? There is a blog called “dumbthingsblackpplsay” already, but it hasn’t gone out of its way to be a word-thiefin’ creepazoid, so it doesn’t really bug me.
many comments of my last picture were asking for an indie movie adaption of the novel. featuring an amazing soundtrack, obviously.
so true.
Why is this making me laugh.
Why am I laughing so hard.
Sad thing is, I was in like a trillion writing classes with dudes who were en route to writing this novel/film.
And they didn’t even have the decency to all be white douchebags. -.-;
and white people keep buying this kind of shit
that’s why white people keep making it
Most guys, we can recite all of The Godfather, we can recite all of Caddyshack, we can do those kinds of things. Women, by and large, can’t. You guys can say “you complete me”, and that’s about it. And I think it’s because in the history of movies, there have been fewer quotable lines spoken by actresses than actors.
- Aaron Sorkin (follow and join the #LadiesinFilm tag on Twitter to prove him wrong with quotable lines from women across film history.
My two cents.
Now maybe he’s attempting to criticize how poorly written film characters tend to be. It’s hard to give him that benefit of the doubt when he prefaces this remark by saying that most guys can recite certain movies. One, many women can recite all of THE GODFATHER, too, so that’s ignorant right there. Two, he’s implying that male-dominated films are the only ones that are quotable. While most films are male-dominated and that in itself is a sexist reality, that’s both circular reasoning and still untrue. Finally, why does Aaron Sorkin or any man get to be the arbiter of what is memorable or not? I could give two shits about being able to quote CADDYSHACK. It isn’t all that. THELMA AND LOUISE has far more significance in U.S. cinematic history, and is full of quotable lines by both male and female characters thanks to a female screenwriter. Anyone who claims to be a connoisseur of U.S. films and can’t quote THELMA & LOUISE is a poseur.
OK, that was more like a nickel, but that’s how I do.
(Source: shelbyknox)
