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yao behind the scenes of SINNERS (2025)

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scam texts aren't even trying any more. i have to pay my taxes? at latina fiesta dot co???

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Another excellent video essay analyzing race in media, in this case, American Honey.

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And this is supposed to be the "pro-family" agenda?

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Lux

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I have to admit I've all but stopped writing, because the culture has changed so much. There is A LOT OF AI and custom reader-insert fic when my focus has always been a slant on or continuing the text in a new way.

NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

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That is not a face that can wait any longer

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"Hailee Steinfeld in Sinners is a REAL example of passing, not like in Passing (2021). Dir. Rebecca Hall" I love how Rebecca Hall, Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga all explained very clearly multiple times why the casting choices in Passing (2021) are what they are...and absolutely no one bothers to look into that!!! The reason being that Rebecca Hall wanted actresses who were visibly Black so non-Black audiences would feel the characters' fear of discovery more accurately. Also, in Nella Larsen's novel, Irene and Clare don't necessarily pass for white, they pass for non-Black. Passing ≠ passing for white because passing was/is a term originated by Black people to describe the intentional action of distancing oneself from Blackness. It's not an identity, it's an action!!!!! It's something people did/do, not something people were/are. Both Ryan Coogler and Rebecca Hall actually understand this intimately in their respective films but you'd never know that from the way they're discussed.

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I do have to say one thing about a particular scene in "Sinners" that was another red flag about Remmick's intentions....

*spoilery things ahead*

I couldn't get over how insidious it was of him to use our ring-shout ceremony to force-assimilate the Black juke joint folks into his little vampire cabal.

That clockwise and counterclockwise dancing in a circle is so powerful for us. We did it in Congo Square, among the Geechee/Gullah in the low country, and elsewhere. It is the place of communing with spirits to put us in a trance-like state to open that doorway. We use it in Hoodoo, Voodoo, Candomble, Obeah and other syncretic religious off-shoots that we've created and used throughout the Black Diaspora to bind us with our ancestors and call down our Gods/Orishas/Loas to often ride us like horses.

For him to use our most intimate way to connect with our own for his nefarious use--forcing us to dance to his music, and sing HIS Irish songs--offended me the best way in a movie. Ryan did his homework! I almost shouted in the theater, "Oh, no this dude did not just use our cultural practices to uplift him and his own. Tricking them into thinking they were the same."

Anyhoo, shout out to the ring-shout. The details in this fucking movie still blow me away. The ring-shout dancing is liberation for us and often had be done hidden away in the woods. Watching it used to enslave Black people again was intense.

Sidenote: Jack O'Connell was dancing his ass off and I'm so happy he got to get back into his Irish dancing roots himself! Somebody throw on Beyonces "Riverdance"! Lol!

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BTS with director Ryan Coogler on the set of "Sinners"

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Living his best life