Why are you brown? You’re a brown person. Why?
Browsing: Commentary
We’re not going to let you win.
We are locked off from the centre of our culture: our language. We are outsiders to our birthright.
and me, fighting for arm space with a businessman using the term “Kafkaesque” for the fifth time in one screening.
We need to have conversations about strategically and systematically destroying colourism and the practices born through it.
The conversation turned to Chileans. “They’re all liars! And perverts!” one attendee observed. “Oh my god, so true,” another contributed, a New Yorker.
It’s a basic gesture of dignity: I see you as a human, thus I will learn your name.
“It’s not just about adding ‘diversity’ for flavour.”
At what cost and to what end had we convinced ourselves that our pleasure was necessary for their survival or existence?
Is this what it takes to ‘earn’ your place in society as an immigrant?