For B. Pagels-Minor, the pregnant employee Netflix terminated on “suspicion” of a leak, the question became: How can we say very clearly, you can make 25 or 100 specials of LGBTQ -comedy people for the same price as one Chappelle special? vult.re/30Tmyf1
Halyna Hutchins, ARCHENEMY’s DP, has a brilliant mind for light and texture. Her tastes and sensibility of what is cinematic were a huge asset for executing our style — the grimy but beautiful feeling I referred to as ROMANTIC BRUTALSM.
In this edition of #RoughDraft, we speak to the writer and cultural critic @zblay on the occasion of her new book "Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture"—out today.
Below, she discusses her writing routine. interviewmagazine.com/cultur…
CAREFREE BLACK GIRLS is an empowering and celebratory portrait of Black women--from Josephine Baker to Aunt Viv to Cardi B. Join film and culture critic @zblay in conversation with @janetmock on October 28 for an in-person event at The Strand! buff.ly/3voFH3s
So so proud. 🙌🏾
We cannot be silenced, or erased. We get to say what’s harmful and how it impacts us. Our experiences—and our identities—belong to us. And we will continue to tell our stories.
In my life, I have a simple barometer by which I measure all things. It is whether my mom would be proud of me for what I've done or am doing. I think she would be very proud today of what I wrote today for the @washingtonpostwashingtonpost.com/opinions/…
We are thrilled to thank @janetmock and @prisonculture for their generous support over the years with these gorgeous plaques 😍😍 come browse the Janet Mock Trans Studies Section and the MK Abolitionist Kids Corner 💙📚💙
ALT Shot from below, a photo of the “The Janet Mock Trans Studies Section” plaque with Janet Mock’s book Surpassing Certainty directly above, joined by Queer and Trans Migration, Tomorrow Will Be Different, An Apartment On Uranus, Whipping Girl, etc
ALT Shot from below, the plaque “The Mariame Kaba Abolitionist Kids Corner” under the board books Feminist Baby and A is for Activist
That time when the blueprint (Norman Lear) saw #themspatshow pilot early and sent a video 😩😍😍🥺 I never thought I’d hear this man say my name. I still can’t find the words 🙌🏾 it’s humbling.
"I do the work that I do so that girls everywhere growing up like I did not only see themselves but realize that they, too, are deserving of an audience."
Janet Mock, a writer/producer of @PoseFX, is here to pave the way for trans women. 🙌