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#RepresentationMatters, or does it? In this video, I question the utility of representation. So often representation is treated as sacred such that it can't be criticized. I'm wondering if this has caused us not to ask very important questions of representation, or worse yet...as it gotten us to forego larger questions and imaginative endeavors?
I can't wait to hear your thoughts!
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In this video, I wanted to look at the reviews of the new game, Forspoken; more specifically, the commentary around and critiques of Frey, the protagonist. So much of the response to her, I would suggest, has been based in anti-Blackness, and I want to challenge us to get beyond "liking" (or not) these characters and being more introspective about what causes us to be uncomfortable or comfortable with characters...what structures how we think about characters, stories, worlds, and people.
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The genre of movie that we've deemed "slave movies" or movies about Black resistance struggles are often thought to be degrading for Black people. Often, we use the term "trauma porn" to describe them. In this video, I seek to explore not only the causes and "need" for anti-Black violence, but whether or not we have a duty to depict these experiences of violence. What is the difference between desiring and consuming Black suffering...and bearing witness to it.
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Here, I talk about what I think regarding using academic language, and I pose a question that been on my mind about the power of story.

Is the ballroom scene the revolutionary or even radical scene that many have posited to be? Or is it reformist and, ultimately, seeking incorporation and palatability? In this video, we discuss the radical possibilities of ballroom, its failings to be radical, and how we might be able to understand its evolution and push its radical, its Black capacity for gender and class subversion.
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Afrofuturism, AfricanFuturism, and African Jujuism were and are attempts to place Black peoples into futures that were, previously, thought to be devoid of us. They are ways of interrogating beauty, timelines, even knowledge creation. However, what are the limits of Black futurisms and fantasies? Where do the dreams end? What would it look like, then...
...to push all of these arenas of thought into the void and think alongside cosmos shattering impossibilities?
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"AAVE is not broken English!" is a declaration that is so often spoken; and my question is...who cares if it is? Do we, as Black people? If we do, who is the audience? Who are we trying to convince, and why? Maybe we should break English. Our obligation should not be to preserving the languages, the institutions, the structures that exist now as oppressive forces.
So...are you ready Black people?
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So often, we ask the question as to whether or not anime characters are white, but this is probably not the best question to ask when determining what Black people are reacting to in anime and manga. More than what the characters are is the question of what the characters are not.
Join us in a conversation about mukokuseki in Japanese art and what that means about the perceptions of Black people and Black responses.
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I know that it sounds counter intuitive, but what if hope is one of the things that keeps us bound and suffering? What if hope is nothing but an aspiration for something or things that can never happen BECAUSE they would mean the unraveling of the social order? What does giving up hope mean? Does it entail despair? If we give up hoping for change, and thusly trying to educate, love, and "free hugs"ing our way out of anti-Blackness...what becomes possible? These are just a few of the questions I'm interested in discussing in this video.
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