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milves please interact

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ophelia - he/him
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chumbie

i ask my portrait of kim kitsuragi for advice and then i take out my matching frame of harry for advice (bad kind)

kim: focus on your work. you’re making progress

harry, who i keep locked inside my drawer: drop out of college and dwell on things forever. start huffing paint NOW!1!1

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shatterstar

TODAY I WILL BE ALLOWING MYSELF TO PERFORM IMPERFECTLY. I WILL BE GIVING THOUGHT TO THINGS OUTSIDE OF MY OWN BODY AND MY OWN SKILLS. I WILL BE NAMING EACH NEW EMOTION AS I FEEL IT. I WILL BE IGNORING MY DESIGN. I WILL BE SITTING IN THE SUN.

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kihnindewa
When we meet OJ & Emerald Haywood, they’re the last standing among hunted peoples...protectors of the last of the land, the traditions, the blood. To build the necessary world & spark the beginning, to be erased from it... This is an Indigenous ache, to not be able to go home & to have no choice but to try.
I don’t want to talk about the monster, about the unrecognizable or the unfamiliar. There is a danger sitting across you & I in our most fearful moments...the intimate strangers who know best our vulnerabilities, those for whom we set the table. I want to talk about the man who feeds the monster. ...as his imperviousness to the same evils he let upon us finally becomes true delusion, as we agree that this violence will not save even one of us, I am glad that Jupe died.

Kihnindewa. Excerpts from I'm Glad Jupe Died: An Afro-Indigenous Reflection On NOPE (2022)

I have a lot of thoughts about the parallels between the Haywoods' story & real world afro-indigenous experiences, and how Jupe parallels real world dynamics between non-Black people of color & Black people (& anti-Blackness as an alleged means of survival). Especially the latter. So I wrote something about it!

I also have a public article on this (to expand on these thoughts & discuss even more, like Black hypversibility) in the works, but for now you can access the full piece & so much more here.

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