THREAD: After a record–breaking number of film submissions, we are thrilled to share our official selections for the 2023 BlackStar Film Festival! 🎉 This year 93 films representing 31 countries will screen, including 19 World, 11 North America, 10 East Coast, and 5 US premieres.
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We're at 90% of our post-production goal and have one day left to raise it. Follow along and help us finish our short film here: seedandspark.com/fund/differenc
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Support THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN US, a queer romantic short raising money for post-production on : seedandspark.com/fund/differenc via
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I'm supporting #TheDifferenceBetweenUs, a romantic short made by filmmakers of color, raising money for post-production: seedandspark.com/fund/differenc
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My brilliant and abundantly talented friend is making a film and raising money for post-production! #TheDifferenceBetweenUs is a queer romantic short made by filmmakers of color. Please consider supporting! seedandspark.com/fund/differenc
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I’m supporting #TheDifferenceBetweenUs, a romantic short directed by the brilliant , who is raising money for post-production: seedandspark.com/fund/differenc
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So excited for ’s next film!!! Go support The Difference Between Us on !!! seedandspark.com/fund/differenc
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You can also subscribe to my new newsletter for updates and infrequent thoughts on gender, race, and popular media: tinyletter.com/imran_siddiquee #TheDifferenceBetweenUs
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I'm working on a short film! It's a romance set in Philadelphia, made by and for queer people of color. You can follow along (and support us) here:
seedandspark.com/fund/differenc #TheDifferenceBetweenUs
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Creator + Unveils Inaugural Class Of Emerging BIPOC Filmmakers For Its Diversity Focused Short Film Fund ‘Flip The Script’
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I wrote a thing: "caught between a hard place of invisibility & hyper-visibility I as a Muslim filmmaker feel trapped by my industry... wheres the space for films that concern themselves not with war, but with life?" #Sundance2022 #MyMuslimFilm documentary.org/online-feature via
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It's not just incels and it's not just hoteps: it's the Black Manosphere. Wrote about it.
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One important point I hope people walk away with from “We Need to Talk About Cosby” is that a rapist can only hide behind the myth of “America’s father” because the concept of “father knows best” is itself deeply tied to rape culture and white supremacist capitalist patriarchy
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bell hooks taught me that there is power in looking. that my gaze was oppositional and necessary. that it held the power to restructure and reimagine what the world can look like without reproducing domination and harm.
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Issue 003 of is out now! Guest edited by with art direction by Caroline Washington, and featuring essays, reviews, interviews and more on Black, Brown, and Indigenous visual culture. Order and subscribe today! shop.blackstarfest.org/collections/se #SeenJournal
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We have a new podcasts series called Pop Culture Detective: Audio Files! Our first episode is an in-depth investigation of the first season of Ted Lasso. Let us know what you think!
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I wrote about WRITING WITH FIRE for the latest issue of , which is out now in print and online:
seen.blackstarfest.org/Tides-of-Change
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some news: today, i’m excited to launch blackfilmarchive.com. this ever-expanding black film archive provides history and context to over 200 black films made from 1915 to 1979 currently streaming.
every description on the site is lovingly written & researched by me.
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HAPPENING NOW at #BSFF21
“Glitch and the Moving Image,” a panel moderated by exploring how digital platforms under racial capitalism extract value from Blackness while devaluing Black people.
Join the livestream from 2–4pm ET ⬇️
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Have you checked out our epic line-up of panels at #BlackStar10? This one tmw is no exception: "Glitch and the Moving Image" w/ , Cam Granger, E. Jane, and , moderated by , is live on our FB page at 2 pm ET: fb.me/e/2jorxEL7I
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Today the team is teaming up with and from for a letter writing event. There is still time to register!
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“Policing has never been an effective response to violence because the police are agents of white supremacy. Policing has never kept sex workers or massage workers or immigrants safe.”
Statement by that we have signed onto docs.google.com/document/d/1_Q
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“How could this have happened”
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These deaths somehow mean more because of the rise in anti-Asian violence related to COVID-19, but no mention of how they’re connected to the long policing of Asian sex work, which so many Asian Americans and those speaking up against anti-Asian hate endorse.
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Please read & share my sister Fatimah Asghar’s statement about her abuser, Roger Bonair-Agard
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Today my sister Fatimah Asghar came forward about her abuser and we are ready to hold space for her. Consider sharing her statement, especially if you run in literary/poetry spaces: docs.google.com/document/d/1oC
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it's "believe survivors" until the person committing harm is someone you love, or someone who is really talented, or someone who has so much potential, or someone who survived trauma, or someone who was misunderstood, or someone who is a radical organizer, or....
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Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by @IjeomaOluo speaks deeply to the problems of contemporary politics. In our newest Short Takes, @sadydoyle, Saida Grundy, , & respond. Read for free!
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I saw this a today during the #CapitolBuilding fiasco. Pointing out the Paintings in the capitol and white house, as seen today. In a thread of thought.
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Those white people who you see in photos parading around the Capitol building with MAGA hats on look at home because they are - that place was built and largely still exists for them. The artwork on the walls surrounding them only emphasizes this.
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White people in a white supremacist patriarchal state don’t just get the benefit of the doubt, or the presumption of innocence, but are given the near-permanent status of *goodness.* Which is why the redemption narratives for today’s attackers are likely already being written.
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They truly expect no consequences. I want y'all to think about that
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All of the calls for patience and sympathy for these hateful people. As so many folks have said, this was to be expected.
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“Her aim in coming forward..was to explain how even a critically acclaimed artist with money, a home and a strong network of supporters could be caught in such a cycle. I’d like to be able to raise awareness on the tactics that abusers use to control you.”
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can we retire “toxic masculinity”—which individualizes and belittles structural violence to mere social performance(s)—from our lexicon of understanding and articulating colonial patriarchal violence
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We could instead de-center men (especially cis men) entirely in these convos. If the point is dismantling the gender binary/hierarchy (aka imperialist capitalist white supremacist patriarchy) in which masculinity dominates, then the path is not via making men feel comfortable.
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