Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

What that woman said about Hidden Figures in that movie review that I title "while I'm coming for Black films" is a more common sentiment +

than we want to recognize. I assure you, there is someone out there who is jealous that this woman got to say those words publicly. +

Some of those people sat through the movie and only applauded at Costner tearing down a sign (which didn't really happen), but overlooked +

Johnson, Vaughan, and Jackson (and other Black women) being the heroes of the film. Some of those people refuse to recognize that things +

have not really changed for Black women. Have even asked a single Black woman colleague, student, friend about their current experiences. +

And, like that film critic, don't see the world beyond they're short gaze enough to notice that Kirsten Dunst's character was an oblivious +

white woman mirroring (though toned down) the micro-aggressions Black women experience to this day. Further, Dunst's character is evidence +