still i rise



Hollywood has proven that it literally would rather make another big budget film about black maids [The Help] than about real black women, much less queer black women. What a feeling then to see Alike’s [Pariah] projected face looking out into a packed movie theater while Audre Lorde looks on and whispers ‘because I am woman, because I am Black, because I am lesbian, because I am myself – a Black woman warrior poet doing my work – come to ask you, are you doing yours?’
— Saeed Jones, “Watching Pariah With Audre Lorde”
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    Umm, black domestic workers ARE real black women, but yeah…I get the point that’s being made here.
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