🚨 DO NOT MISS this important screening and discussion today at 6-8:30pm at Irondequoit Town Hall! 🎬📣
In our documentary short film, Being Black in America, two storytellers reflect on the power of knowing one’s history, which includes ancestry. What the Brister English Project does is not only help Black folks do this, but it is also essential to preserving our history and culture when so many entities and people are brutally adamant in keeping it hidden from us.
Our Voices Project and the Brister English Project are teaming up to host a screening of Being Black in America and to discuss the challenges, complex emotions and racism, starting with the 1950’s Jim Crow era to present day, involved in making genealogy accessible to Black people with the Brister English Project.
This event is free and open to the public.
BE THERE FOR A VERY IMPORTANT DISCUSSION!
This is the ONE time we're happy that Hollywood didn't cast a Black or Brown actor. 🙃🤭
Because to cast anyone else would be MISSING THE POINT ENTIRELY. For those that get it, get it.
Have you seen American Psycho? If so, do you pick up what we're putting down? Let us know below. 👇🏾
For more hot takes and our thoughts about representation in movies, subscribe to our podcast! [Check the comments.] 🎬
How are YOU supporting Indigenous Peoples this week? We challenge you to buy from small businesses AND support Native creatives, and you can do BOTH!
Shop small AND Shop Native Made this Saturday at La Luna Restaurant! Watch the video to see the featured artists and businesses represented!
We’re proud sponsors of The Third Native Made Market - Rochester NY happening on #SmallBusinessSaturday (11/30) from 11am-5pm followed by a Haudenosaunee community dinner and social dance. Show your support for Indigenous creatives, educators, and community leaders this day and every day.
If you’re unable to make it, Native Made Market will be LIVESTREAMED on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/share/5cWfyS8btsPAZJE4/
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For all those focused on community care and community building, a message for quite a few of you.
Grief is not an excuse for HATE. Feel all of the feelings you need to but the moment you start pointing the blame at folks in other marginalized and oppressed bodies, you've seriously lost the plot ESPECIALLY FOLKS WITNESSING A G-SIDE.
Hold the pain, the loss, the anger, the confusion, and the frustration you feel. We have a long, hard road ahead of us and we cannot have liberation for all if you believe in liberation for some and hold hate in your hearts.
HYDRATE AND HAVE A SEAT. I'm saying this with all of the love I have for y'all.
Thank you!
This is My Grandmother | Trailer
Join us on Thursday, October 10, at 6:30 PM, for This is My Grandmother: Screening + Q&A followed by a panel discussion at Irondequoit Public Library!
This is My Grandmother: Bev & Carol is our documentary short film that chronicles the stories of two Indigenous families, one from the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and one from the Tuscarora Nation. These stories, told across three generations, cover growing up both on and outside of the reservation; traditions and cultural norms; and the lack of Indigenous history in classrooms.
Our panel discussion will feature educators Catherine Shutt, Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, and Trish Corcoran, Tonawanda Onödowága, Bear Clan, who will share approaches to teaching Indigenous history and culture. You will also learn how you can support Indigenous educators and creatives as guests from Indigenous Peoples Day ROC NY and Native Made Market will be available.
No registration is required to attend the documentary screening or the panel discussion, so please join us if you can!
Her college professor said WHAT about slavery? | Being Black in America (Clip)
Her college professor said WHAT about slavery?! 🤦🏾♀️ Follow us for more film clips centering Black stories and history! 🎬✌🏾❤️
Thinking of all of the Black students who are getting assignments like this because this is TRAUMATIZING. We’ve seen things like this all over the country and if you’re a parent or an educator, PUSH for curricula that tell the FULL story of this country, especially when it comes to Black Americans.
When you talk about oppression, talk about it from the oppressed people’s points of view.
Featured in this clip is Kim Smith, a City of Rochester Councilwoman and political director for @VOCALNY who works directly with impacted individuals and elected officials to create policies that will end HIV, Homelessness, The Overdose Crisis and Mass incarceration and Tiffany Porter, an activist who leads @beingblacKintheburbs who fight for antiracist curricula at our school board meetings, set up mutual funds for community members who need it the most, and so much more! Follow them!
Be sure to follow us as well for more clips from Being Black in America, our documentary short film that shows an array of different thoughts and attitudes behind Blackness and what it means to everyone on a personal level by asking one central question, What does being Black in America mean to you? (Now an official selection of @lovewinsfest!)
Happy #MontgomeryBrawl Day for all who celebrate! On this day in #BlackHistory, we witnessed Black folks coming together at the toss of a hat to come to the defense of security guard simply doing his job.
It's also a topic that we got on our podcast in our episode about our film, Being Black in America. We were discussing building community across the diaspora and I HAD to bring up the Alabama Brawl. If you missed this viral moment, please do yourself a favor and go look it up.
There are several moments in history and even in the present day where we've seen Black folks support each other and this is definitely one of those moments worth celebrating.
If you feel any differently, feel free to take it up with AquaMAYNE. 🤣
You can listen to our FULL podcast episode wherever you stream your favorite podcasts under Representation in Cinema.
We get into a number of different topics discussed within the film as well:
🎦 Curricula We'd Like to See
🎦 Intersectionality
🎦 Building Community Across the Diaspora
🎦 Authentic Representation in TV/Movies
To get the direct link to listen to the full episode now, [check the comments]!
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✋🏾If YOU were in charge of deciding our curricula in regards to the history taught in our schools, what topic would you IMMEDIATELY add?
Ann Marie St. Rose, one of our storytellers in our latest documentary short film, Being Black in America, gives her answer and y'all...it's a GOOD ONE!
Follow us for more clips from our podcast where we talk about representation in movies.
You can listen to the FULL episode on Spotify (🔗 in bio) or wherever you get your podcasts!
It be your own people sometimes 🤣.
I told everyone to turn off their cell phones or to put them on silent before we start filming and then this happens. 🤣
It happens to the best of us, right?...RIGHT?!
This was on production day for our film, Being Black in America. You can check out the trailer on our YouTube channel and sign up to host a screening (🔗 in bio)!
Be sure to follow us for more behind-the-scenes looks and clips from Being Black in America!
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We stumped a few people with this one. Can you think of a Black-woman led film that's NOT a comedy?
(We're trying to see something.)
Let us know the film or films below! Like this video and follow us for more of these film challenges!
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Biracial Black folks, does what she's saying resonate with you?
Gabrielle Brannigan, one of our storytellers from our short documentary film, Being Black in America, describes her conversations with other folks that when talking about identifying as biracial that she's had to explain "no, I am many things. I am two things, and the two things the older I got always felt at odds with one another. To be Black and to be white in America. And how can I be the oppressed and the oppressor."
If you feel comfortable, share your thoughts below and let us know what you think. Then, follow us to see more clips from our film, Being Black in America.
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Sharing the stories of Black, Brown, and Indigenous people through visual storytelling.
