Krys Talk & Cole Sipe – Way Back Home [NCS Release]

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Queer Possibility and Black Love in Wakanda

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wakanda1jpg-652e17_1280wI guess I do want to see Black Panther when it comes out. The social media hype has been thick for at least two years now, and from the early reviews by those who attended the premiere in LA, it’s supposed to “change the superhero genre forever.”

But one thing I thought about today is the possibility of queer representation in the fictional country of Wakanda. If Wakanda is a country which was never colonized by another country, and also a country in which the majority religions are the Heliopolitan cults brought there from ancient Egypt (assuming that neither Christianity nor Islam have made a dent), then maybe – just maybe – it is a country where sexuality, sexual orientation and gender identity are held much more maturely discussed by citizens and government compared to their surrounding ex-colonized neighbors.

What would life be like for a same-gender-loving and/or gender-nonconforming Wakandan? Would they not have to live in fear of their parents or the royal government drumming up violent mobs or secret police to drag them out of their homes, beat them senseless and torture them to death? Would they not live under the hostility of those who proclaim that the sexual and gender minorities are “committing the sin of Lut/Sodom and Gomorrah” and “deliberately infecting people with AIDS?” Would they not live under such lies, or lies like “they’re pedophiles” or “they’re practicing an un-African lifestyle” or “they’re threats to our civilization”?

How would the Hieropolitan cults view sexual and gender minorities? How would the royal government view them or treat them? How would the Wakandan language and literature (writing system?) describe them? And would Wakandan culture describe SOGI minorities in different linguistic frames than how even LGBT-friendly Westerners frame them?

Dare I imagine: same-sex marriage in Wakanda? Lesbian warriors in the Dora Milaje?

Wakanda is a symbol of imagined, alternate-history “uncolonized Africas”, ones in which science and technology advanced without the dominant intervention of European or Asian actors. I want to imagine that, in such a fictional African country, that LGBT Wakandans not only exist, but go through their own struggles and live their own stories in a more mature, less sexually-draconian regime than most real-life African countries. If not in the movie, if not in the comics, then maybe in my thoughts – “headcanon”, if you will.

Perhaps Wakanda would still have a great deal of patriarchy going on, even with the semi-egalitarian politics within the film. But, in the face of a non-Abrahamic patriarchy, perhaps same-gender love and trans identity could still be entertained and accommodated without hysterics or fear. I know that this more “liberal” approach to sexuality would be “letting down” the boisterous gender-essentialist “kings-and-queens” black nationalism that, no doubt, finds desperate refuge in the Wakanda idea.

I say all of this as a gay black man and a sci-fi/fantasy fan. But I also write this as a fan of black love, in which we feel comfortable enough in our skin and color to embrace each other and manifest our variety of love for each other and our authentic selves.

I want to believe that Wakandans, in such a different environment, can be a bit more understanding toward people who don’t fit heterosexual, cisgender molds.

EDIT: io9 on Marvel’s missed opportunity for queer representation in superhero film.

Alt-history: British Haiti

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What if Toussaint Louverture had switched his allegiance from the French to the British during the Haitian Revolution?

My (optimistic) idea is that, after he joined forces with the British against both the French and Spanish, Toussaint would have helped secure a British foothold on the island. He would have won a guarantee for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade from the British, and maybe the British would have kept their word, extending abolition of both throughout the British Empire over the next two-three decades. In all likelihood, however, political enfranchisement of the majority-black populace would have taken much longer.

The furthest that people of color got in enfranchisement at any point in the 19th century was Dominica’s legislative assembly from 1835, when the first three men of African descent were elected, to 1896, when the by-this-time-half-elected-half-appointed assembly was abolished in favor of directly-controlled crown colony status. Throughout the British Caribbean, even after slavery was abolished, the British maintained a racial caste system which favored a minority of white planters against the black and mixed-race majority.

I fear that a Haiti which was autonomous from Britain would not have been too different from these other British colonies, beyond the most crucial gains of the colony’s violent separation from French rule. Questions remain:

  • Would Toussaint and his generals have helped lead this autonomous polity as viceroys?
  • What would Britain have brought to Haiti which 1) was common in other colonies like Jamaica and 2) was not endemic to former French colonies like Haiti?
  • What about Westminster-style parliamentary government? Would Haiti have adopted this instead of the big-man presidential system of the United States? And who would have been allowed to participate at the time, or would they have also been allowed to participate by the 20th century?
  • Whither Spanish Saint-Domingue? Would the Spanish side have been taken over by the forces of Toussaint et al? And if so, how would that have unified the island?
  • Would the Westminster system and other British mores, unified by the abolition of slavery, have helped the citizens of this island and their political system up to the present?
  • How would a British Haiti have impacted Simon Bolivar and his independence movement?
  • What impact would this have on African-Americans? Or on Afro-Caribbeans?
  • What impact would this have on the Louisiana Purchase?

I think this is worth looking into.

New Ariana Grande 2017 – Into You (New Jack Swing Remix)

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New jack swing remix of Ariana Grande, by Keith Neon. Download the song for free: http://bit.ly/AGIntoYouRemix

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Why Leslie Uggams? “Because It’s June!”

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http://ift.tt/UJSu8i Leslie Uggams met up with Playbill to celebrate 30 Days of Pride by giving a shout out to all of the LGBT folks that she has worked with in the course of her amazing career on stage and on screen. She also looked back at an episode of Seth’s Broadway Chatterbox where she gave the skinny on the bizarre “June is Bustin’ Out All Over” performance that brought her an extra dose of fame in gay bars worldwide. To see the entire Chatterbox episode, visit SethTV.com

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Come Sunday | A Netflix Original Film | Netflix

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Trump – “S**thole Countries” – shithole statement by NAMIBIA💩💩

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RAANACHI PAKHARA (a NID Film & Video student documentary, 2014)

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A film about the African-origin Marathi-speaking Siddi community of Karnataka, living on the margins of society, used and abused in equal measure . A film about about memories and dreams, despair and hope, giving up and staying put.

RAANACHI PAKHARA – The Free Spirits
A National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India Film & Video Graduation Project Documentary
Student Director: Aditya Ranade
Faculty Guide: Shilpa Das
Year of Production: 2014

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