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Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies. I want to be like those poets who care about the moon. Palestinians don’t see the moon from jail cells and prisons. It’s so beautiful, the moon. They’re so beautiful, the flowers.

— Noor Hindi, from “Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying,” DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.

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It was so nice then, wasn’t it? - Yes. In The Mood For Love 花樣年華 (2000) dir. Wong Kar Wai

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mutuals do this with me

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April 20th, 2024.

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Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) dir. Ang Lee

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Ayo Edebiri in The Sweet East (2023).

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Shine bright like a diamond.

Girlhood, 2014 dir. Céline Sciamma

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GINA TORRES as CLEOPATRA in XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS (1995–2001) Season 3, Episode 8, 'The King of Assassins'

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怪物 (Monster)

— 2023, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda

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AYO EDEBIRI  Vogue Magazine | March 2024

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white gays need to read up on pinkwashing and homonationalism before ever even thinking about opening their mouths talking about homophobia/transphobia in the global south

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Monster (2023) // dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda

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Suzy Bemba as Toinette in Poor Things (Film, 2023).

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“Another part of why I think this green dress resonates so much is that it’s a real collaboration. The thing is, to make a dress that bold everyone has to be committed to it. Seamus [McGarvey], the DP, has to be committed to shooting that dress in an iconic way. It has to fit Keira in an iconic way. Joe has to want it to have a function like that. The real secret of the green dress is its function in the movie. If it hadn’t had that function, it could’ve been a dress that comes and goes, really. But because it has such a pivotal moment — or she’s wearing it at such a pivotal moment — and Seamus and Joe have shot it in a way, and Keira looks so good in it, I think it’s just this perfect storm of things all going right at the same time. There’s a shot of her standing, smoking outside — this side shot — and the dress is quite well laid out. It’s a great shot; it has a real ’30s glamour but it’s also a bit more modern. It just captures what we were trying to do in the movie. You can make a really brilliant dress but, and I’ve seen this in other films, the actor’s only shot from the waist up. Unless you frame it in a way that’s really going to sell it to its best advantage, it’s never going to have the impact it could have. Seamus shooting it in the full-length way and it being lit so beautifully is what sets it up.”  —  Jacqueline Durran, costume designer for Atonement (2007) dir. Joe Wright

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At least she’s not white again. Your wife was white. My wife was a beard, beards don’t count. 

STERLING K. BROWN as CLIFF ELLISON AMERICAN FICTION (2023) dir. Cord Jefferson