closet-keys:

This video was really good. I was slightly nervous because of the video title card image (I think it’s maybe intended to be clickbait to get people to watch who most need to interrogate their own bias about fatness), but the video is centrally about anti-fatness as inextricable from anti-Blackness.

He references important, thoroughly researched texts on this topic like Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun L. Harrison and Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by by Sabrina Strings.

He also platforms several different fat speakers to discuss different intersections (such as a fat Black bisexual guy discussing the politics of fatness, Blackness, and desirability in queer men’s spaces), and to discuss the rampant medical abuse that fat people experience. He also discloses his own struggles with his body and his eating disorder.

Trigger warning for personal discussion of eating disorders and experiences of anti-fatness in the video, as well as some media clips that include some really awful anti-fatness to demonstrate how dehumanizing the mainstream treatment of fat people is. Also content warning for surface level historical discussions of white supremacy, slavery, and eugenics.

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therealklt:

So why are so many filmmakers keeping the lights low? The simple answer is: because they can. It’s been a decade since digital video overtook the use of celluloid, and by 2016 more than 90% of films were shot digitally. One change wrought by this technology is that directors now have video monitors on set to show them exactly what the cameras are capturing. They can see immediately whether all of the details they need are there on screen, so they can experiment with lower lighting.

This is a nonsense cop-out. Of course they’re going to tell you it’s for “realism,” “tone,” and “experimentation.” That makes them sound like serious auteurs. They’d never tell you that it’s because they’re shooting on a greenscreen, and the effects won’t be finished until a month before the movie releases, so they have only the faintest idea what the backgrounds will look like, and it’s easier for everyone involved to simply not light the set and let everything get brightened or darkened in post. They won’t tell you that because it’s embarrassing. It’s embarrassing they’re making these goofy cash-grab movies for megacompanies and paying their VFX artists barely anything. It’s embarrassing they’re working under these conditions, selling out. So they tell the people at the BBC they’re making art.

P.S. I’m annoyed The Batman got added to this list when it was a good looking movie. “Dark” is not the same as “flat and bland”.

myclericalromance:

i went to a tiny counterserve diner once and accidentally poured sugar instead of salt all over my hashbrowns and was eating them sadly anyways. the waitress took them away and started making me another one and I tried to protest, but she just snorted and said “we’re not catholic here”. now every time i’m doing something painful out of obligation i think about how that is not repenting, this body is not a catholic establishment, there is no nobility in suffering.

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knitmeapony:

barclaysbianca:

Meme news: The Brazilian actress Renata Sorrah came out as bisexual at the age of 76

That’s her, btw


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She’s an icon and also very talented. We Stan.

Diversity win! Icon for indecision comes out as bisexual!

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lycanthology:

wish ppl understood the power nowadays in not giving something attention. things today are so focused on attention and reaction and #memes that the best way to shut literally anything down is simply not give it exactly what it wants. like you arent going to own that bigot on twitter youre going to boost their original message whether thats your intent or not and you arent just playing with ai for shits and giggles you are giving it free learning and data. just stop engaging with things that dont deserve it

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