Zan Banger

[Zan Banger @ZanBanger]

Black women say this every day and in every way, and I think it's time for us to stop. To paraphrase Beyonce, why do we waste our time on critique when you haven't absorbed the last notes. So, here's someone else saying it. I'm gonna bookmark it and reuse it because...whew.

[Zan Banger @ZanBanger]

@TheRealAsabiLee I meant body of work over the course of a series of guided practices. The contestants could build their portfolios, get one-on-one time with people with tons of experience, AND practice things like the studio sessions and get REAL feedback (like the confessional convos).

[Zan Banger @ZanBanger]

Dear Project Greenlight: I'm here for providing opportunities to those typically shut out of studio systems, but it doesn't make sense to do so without education and support. Why not make an Apprentice-style challenge show for budding auteurs and eliminate based on body of work?

[Zan Banger @ZanBanger]

The WINNER could be given the Project Greenlight movie and funding, having already worked on a season full of projects and developed some skills that independent filmmakers don't have to have. Two shows in one, with a much better cushion and better prospect of success. IJS.

[Zan Banger @ZanBanger]

@AndrewVU041 I thought you were talking about how folks were able to clearly articulate the issue in confessionals, but no one said to her in week one: There HAS to be a script. These are the problems we see - fix or remake it so these are solved. Have something for us to see next week.

[Zan Banger @ZanBanger]

@ambernoelle I also think Hearts & Bones is terrible and beautiful and complicated: "Why won't you love me for who I am, where I am? ...Because that's not the way the world is, baby. This is how I love you, baby." Whew.

[Zan Banger @ZanBanger]

@questlove @lynneedenise As a regular degular, I can cosign and say that the relief from the constant onslaught of American-branded racism allows a status of chill that is hard to resist. It gets a little diminished when you see other Brown/Black (non-Americans) catching more hell.

[Zan Banger @ZanBanger]

@naima However, when I was a teacher, *I* was not threatened or assaulted, but I definitely taught with some folks who caught it from kids. In defense of the kids, some of those teachers were really disrespectful, in that way adults are when they think they can talk any old kinda way.

[Zan Banger @ZanBanger]

@naima In fairness, when I (Gen Xer) was a junior, a senior started yelling at (and walking up on) a mean, old, grouchy Geometry teacher. He didn't hit him, but the teacher in my class (think Uncle Jesse) grabbed his bat and sprinted down the hall to intervene.

[Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard]

The most revealing part about this entire piece is an Oscar voting actor directly disparaging Viola Davis’s acting and then admitting to having not even seen The Woman King. https://t.co/fKyvKlpmLN

[Zan Banger @ZanBanger]

@The_A_Prentice @theashleyray Also gonna add the "gospel" live version of One More Try. I agree that he doesn't sound *Black* but can't agree that he doesn't sound soulful. And I feel like when Aretha Franklin, Mary J, AND Whitney cut songs with you? That's something.

[Zan Banger @ZanBanger]

@KwaniALunis 2.

[Zan Banger @ZanBanger]

@ImaniOrWhatever

[Zan Banger @ZanBanger]

@AdrianCJax I'm so sorry. There is nothing that prepares you for this day, no matter how long you see it looming on the road ahead. Your mom's gift of the words (even though she had clearly already written them on your heart)? 💯. I love this for you. Thank you for sharing her.

[Zan Banger @ZanBanger]

@Linds_Zolna @itsJeffTiedrich @oneunderscore__

[jonny sun @jonnysun]

i wrote about the ability to survive neglect, and how surviving is not the same as being alive.

https://t.co/JGkWjIKjCX

[Michael Olesen 💉😷🇺🇸🇺🇦 @maolesen]

Some perspective for those who still don't get it: If I were forced to be infected by either HIV or COVID, I would choose HIV without hesitation.

[Zan Banger @ZanBanger]

@unclelukereal1

[J. Karen Parker @jkparker]

Happy Halloween! My kid was excited about every house that knew what he was. A lot of folks were unfamiliar with Stranger Things and thought he was a Venus flytrap. 😂

[Zan Banger @ZanBanger]

Yikes. Ouch, pastor. Just... Telling all the people's truths too loud.

[IT WAS NEVER GOING TO BE ME @solomonmissouri]

Let’s say what needs to be said… too many of us in faith life have not interrogated desire… so we employ shame as a kink