Week 7 - Political Resistance by Katucha Bento https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995 To look at the interrelation between political resistance related to ethnicity and popular culture. We’ll explore how political resistance is depicted in popular culture, how popular culture is influenced by political resistance and in turn, how popular culture influences political resistance. en-us 2019-02-05 15:45:17 UTC 2020-01-20 00:01:04 UTC hello@padlet.com https://artz3.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/sudit_anna_womens_march_annasudit_1_copy_2.jpg?w=640 Kehinde Wiley https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/410645237 Nigerian painter who reimagines Blackness in the Eurocentric Art World 

form of political resistance

Rejecting stereotypes 

Incorporating elements of blackness into a white dominant art sphere. 

For example, placing black representation into paintings which were originally only for the white sphere. This is evident from the set of paintings with black people on the saddle of a horse. This motif was common for white royalty, therefore Wiley redefines this to recreate representation of Blackness.]]> 2019-11-13 15:45:07 UTC https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/410645237 Why activists brought the Black Lives Matter movement to the UK (2016) Katucha https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411100072 ‘Deaths are not just happening in the US’: how a protest movement first launched in America made its mark in Britain 

]]> 2019-11-14 10:43:37 UTC https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411100072 Cecile Emeke - filmmaker brings political issues in her productions Katucha https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411100484 2019-11-14 10:45:00 UTC https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411100484 BlacKkKlansman Katucha https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411101447 Spike Lee film about the first true story of an African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. 
Problems in the film:
- police is the saviour
- portray of Black Panther women
- representation of Black and white women as fragile/ dependant/ back stage performativity
- bad representation of white racist people joining KKK (class, education and intellectual ability: making jokes as if KKK people were only uneducated white people who did not know how to spell, for example).
- white women's fragility]]> 2019-11-14 10:48:08 UTC https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411101447 This is America - Childish Gambino - TRIGGER WARNING GUN VIOLENCE, SWEARING ss17rmm https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411102468  A entire song and music video full of symbolism as a form of political resistance such as:
-  a man being shot in the back of the head with a handgun, while Gambino assumes a comical stance similar to a Jim Crow caricature.
- children using their cell phones to record the chaos happening in the video, while Gambino sings the lyrics "This a celly / That's a tool". Martha Tesema, writer for website Mashable, stated that "cell phones have been used as tools to broadcast police shooting, rioting against, or choking black people in this country".]]> 2019-11-14 10:51:09 UTC https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411102468 Queen Sugar Katucha https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411105753 Series about the history of slavery, Jim Crow's laws, mass incarceration of Black people, in the contemporary USA. 
The topics raise key political issues using intersectional approaches in terms of drug addiction, fatherhood, women's liberations, children sexuality, domestic violence, intergenerational topics within the Black community.
The series is places in New Orleans, with a great selection of music and created by Ava DuVernay

]]> 2019-11-14 11:01:23 UTC https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411105753 Ava DuVernay - Keynote Address | 2013 Film Independent Forum Katucha https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411107026 Producing films with political approaches

]]> 2019-11-14 11:06:09 UTC https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411107026 Selma Katucha https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411107250 “SELMA” is the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic struggle to secure voting rights for all people – a dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with the epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, and led to President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.


]]> 2019-11-14 11:07:00 UTC https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411107250 The Handmaiden - a Chan-wook film Katucha https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411107744 Raising cultural, political, historical elements in the film involving intersectional aspects: sexuality, class, nationality, langugage and ethnicity.]]> 2019-11-14 11:08:41 UTC https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411107744 City of God Katucha https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411108323 Terrible representation of Brazilian slum culture and Black people. 
- political resistance in conversation with this film.
After this film was released, people from City of God had trouble in finding jobs if their address was on their CVs. 

]]> 2019-11-14 11:11:03 UTC https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411108323 Marighella - film Katucha https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411110203 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7825208/ 
Facing a violent military dictatorship and an intimidated opposition, writer-turned-politician Carlos Marighella articulates a resistance all the while ousting heinous crimes of torture and the infamous censorship instituted by the regime. 

-the low rate on IMDB reflects on the way dictatorship in Brazil has been boycotting the film. 
- This film has been prohibited in many schools and the screening in Brazil has been cancelled in many cinemas. 

]]> 2019-11-14 11:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411110203 Bacurau Katucha https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411110507 Bacurau

After the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents.
- Discusses collective organisation
- Mobilisation
- Metaphor of the political situation
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2762506/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1


]]> 2019-11-14 11:19:05 UTC https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411110507 Years and Years Katucha https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411111864 The Lyons family gather in 2019, unaware that their future holds many surprises. 
- Futuristic approach
- Discusses migration, sexuality, austerity, racial and gender roles (it could be better) and new possibilities of Othering/ identities. 

]]> 2019-11-14 11:23:53 UTC https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411111864 Notes: Shirley Anne Tate Katucha https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411119382 "Resistance is not exterior to power but an inherent aspect of it."

Do not forget: the norm is the measure of difference. Creating resistance, creates other ways to (re)produce norms. There is a need for a constant negotiation of positionality in power. (Shirley Tate, 2015)

The hieroglyphics of the flesh still textures our/their beauty/ugliness as much as it does a feminist theory on beauty norms and white iconicity which still needs to be decolonized. This decolonization is necessary because of its focus on that colonial myth that ‘all the women want to be white’ (Tate 2010).

"We can only attempt the decolonization of beauty norms by going beyond the oppositional logic of colonialism which has given rise to marginalization and subalternity within Black feminist
politics and by recognizing the importance of the intersections we
inhabit as Black women for Black decolonial feminist politics."

"Normalization represses beauty difference and dissenting looks by asserting body values in relation to its bodily rules."

]]> 2019-11-14 11:45:57 UTC https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411119382 Notes: Sarah J. Jackson Katucha https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411120397 Key point:  how these activists have manifested Black feminist impulses through social media and beyond, and suggest it is the responsibility of those invested in (re)imagining a more democratic process to closely consider the radically intersectional lessons of the current movement.

"Yet I suggest it is twenty-first-century activists, as exemplified by the Black lives matter movement, who have finally succeeded in making intersectional issues of racial oppression visible to mainstream America. "

"The hashtags that have arisen alongside and in collusion with #BlackLivesMatter are similarly reflective of this unrepentantly intersectional Black liberation politic." - discuss this from critical perspective. Are BLM that inclusive?
 #GirlIGuessImWithHer 

What about 
#sayhername hashtags?
What about
My brother's keeper project during Obama's administration?

hashtags and other forms of situated knowledge arising from networked counterpublics and embraced by a new generation of Black activists should be treated as important contributions to the democratic process. They are a call to include nuanced issues of identity in activist spaces and in national political conversations. They are a call to recognize the value of political thought that arises from the margins and that just might transform our democracy, if we let it. 


]]> 2019-11-14 11:49:01 UTC https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411120397 hy16oc https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411128906 https://www.legallyblack.space/

"We are four Advocates of Social Justice from South West London and we have come together to combat the way black people are portrayed in the media.  We have all been affected by the issue directly and indirectly and can see first hand the damage it causes. With your support we can make a stand to increase fair representation of black people… for good.
 
The aim of the project is to increase awareness surrounding the lack of black representation in the media and furthermore create dialogue and discussion around the often inaccurate and harmful depictions that do occur.

First Project:
By replacing characters from famous white dominant TV programmes with black people we believe we can do so locally and maybe with media influence nationally. We have chosen famous British films and series to alter, in order to make it recognisable to the British public, however we have featured some popular foreign movies.
]]> 2019-11-14 12:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411128906 How The 25 Black Women In Beauty Collective Is Providing A Literal Seat At The Table For Beauty Executives And Mavens hy16oc https://padlet.com/Katucha/week73995/wish/411157845 https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominiquefluker/2019/09/24/25bwb/#1cc58bfe1dd5

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