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#She IS Ken to me

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Issa Rae as Jessica Drew/Spider-Woman in SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (2023) dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin Thompson

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Puuuurrfect

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The Cast of Black Panther : Wakanda Forever

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Black Panther Wakanda Forever Art Posters

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Lupita Nyong'o

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Devin Elle Kurtz on Instagram

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Shownu Round A’round vlive

Bonus: close-up smooch ( *¯ ³¯*)♡

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BLACK WIDOW (2021) dir. Cate Shortland It’s a fighting pose. You’re a total poser.

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Me posting on tumblr:

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Anthony Mackie speaking on becoming Captain America

Marvel Studios: Assembled | The making of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

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this had me DYING

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looks like the dora milaje have jurisdiction... in my heart 🥺♥️

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The Dora Milaje have jurisdiction wherever the Dora Milaje find themselves to be

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As much as I want to celebrate and cheer the Dora Milaje for kicking some stupid asses, the main takeaway from this episode that is unavoidably somber is seeing the shield covered in the blood of someone who was trying to fight for a unified world, who begged for mercy, and who was not responsible for the crime he was murdered for. I want to point out that this visual representation of the shield being misused is only the most explicit depiction of the conflicting nature of that symbol that most people of color have been dealing with for as long as that shield has existed.

Sam refused the shield for many reasons but Mackie has been arguing that part of it is bc it is unimaginably difficult for a black man to represent a nation that has not stood for the black man.

Sarah says, very clearly, that she cannot care about the mascot of a country that doesn't care about her world.

The shield, in many ways, represents America, and America has, historically, systematically and violently oppressed people of color, which makes it very hard for those people of color to claim that symbol, because to them, it is the visual representation of their oppression, and the systems that inhibit their lives.

To people of color, that shield has always had some blood on it, because America as an institution has actively harmed people of color.

And this goes beyond America and the American people, as you can see by the fact that this extra-judicial killing of a member of the Flag Smashers occurs outside of the United States. As someone from a country where uncountable numbers of people have been killed as collateral damage of US-drone strikes, amongst other things, that shield also represents the imperialist military complex that America has and enforces on the world. The shield represents America and America has spilled a lot of blood on foreign soil, a significant amount of it more innocent than the Flag Smasher Walker killed.

TL;DR: Episode 4 may be the first time we are seeing blood physically on the shield for the first time, but for American people of color, and those belonging to nations harmed by American imperialism, that shield has had blood on it for a long time, because it represents America, and for aforementioned groups, America has fronted suffering.