Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums. Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space. It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?
Summer pogroms are becoming a tradition in the UK, and are clearly planned.
Reports from Belfast say the homes of known non-whites were systematically visited and attacked - which suggests information was gathered in advance.
This is not just spontaneous anger.
As someone who was raised in a cult, a lot of it boils down to desperation, wanting community, or needing a coping mechanism. After my mom was killed, I was told by the ppl in the religion that god “saved” me that day because I wasn’t home when my dad tortured/murdered my mom.
Honestly, what a movement. Loose Ends, Hot Chocolate, The Real thing, Soul II Soul, Musical Youth, Mica Paris, Truce, Kruez, Sahara, Aswad, Imagination, Musical Youth, Michelle Gayle, Omar, Jaki Graham, Kofi, Peter Hunnigale, Maxi Priest, Eternal.
(This is not even a start!)
L'un des principaux problèmes du cinéma d'animation africain est l'accessibilité des œuvres.
Le film d'animation camerounais 🇨🇲 "La Grotte Sacrée" de Cyrille Masso et Daniel Minlo est aujourd'hui impossible à voir sur internet.
Pourtant le film est sorti qu'en 2023
My takeaway is a negative one: this tells me that Movies will soon learn the lesson of Music: they will no longer spend the time/money to DEVELOP new stars…they’ll shift that labor over to the creatives themselves, & only fund artists who’ve ALREADY created their own fanbases.
There’s nothing dishonorable about care work in the first place. Not everyone will build scalable start ups or work in Fortune 500 companies. There is dignity in labour. Let people work with their hands and contribute to common grace in peace.
A lot of people’s definition of community is actually enmeshment- makes sense given how rampant and unquestioned it is in many families/cultures.
Idealising the absence of self differentiation, misogyny, “respect”, religion, age hierarchies, transactionality, etc. Mess.