Category: Art
The Magic Negro in Sci-Fi – YouTube
In 2013 Dr. Shawn Smolen-Morton presents “The Magic Negro in Science Fiction Film: District 9 and the Alien Uncle Tom” during a Humanities and Social Sciences Symposium. It articulates a lot of what is disturbing to me about the Finn character in Star Wars, the Force Awakens. Gender-wise, the Rey…
Star Wars, The Force Awakens: A Review From Someone Who Isn’t a Stupid Herdbeast
(Spoiler alert!) I went to see the new Star Wars the day it opened. I’d hear a lot of hype from both the so-called left and right about how feminist and multicultural the movie was. Some were praising it. Some were condemning it. I wanted to see it for myself. …
On a Pedestal
Men who put women on a pedestal don’t see the whole woman. It’s bad enough when an individual man does this with women (like the mangina type of male feminist) or individual women (the average cuckold type). Feminationalists do this with whole races of women, fetishizing them into some bloc…
Anjan Chatterjee talks about the neurology of creativity.
Have you ever had the experience of being so absorbed by a painting or a piece of music,” writes Anjan Chatterjee in his 2013 book The Aesthetic Brain, “that you lose all sense of space and time? These magical moments … are ironically deeply subjective. The problem, of course, is…
Oya Rise of the Orisha Showing at Busseywood Event on September 13, 2014
Oya Rise of the Orisha is the film many Voduni and Zindoki have been waiting for, an action movie about Orisha Oya, by Orisha adherents. In this fast paced action film, the deities known as the Orisha, are re-envisioned as superheroes. We are introduced to the mystical entity Oya, goddess…
