Taking Back YOUR Inner Diva

On this day last year 23-year-old Korryn Gaines was killed by Baltimore County police and her 5-year-old son was shot in the limb.

She was wanted for a traffic violation, but apparently a SWAT team thought she was way too dangerous for them to try and arrest her without fatally shooting her.

I still think about Korryn a lot.

#SayHerName    #KorrynGaines   #ProtectBlackWomen

ITS TIME

Jeffrey Zhang: “This is Nia DaCosta. She is the director of Candyman. Jordan Peele is not the director of Candyman. He is a writer and producer for Candyman. Thanks for your time.

Just to clarify, this is not a dig against Jordan Peele. He is one of my favorite filmmakers, and he has accomplished a great deal in giving voice to the underrepresented. All I’m saying is, many are talking about Candyman without any mention of its director. Let’s do better.” 

@deanevangeliou: “i get using Jordan Peele’s as the “big name” (who wrote the candyman remake) is for marketing to get people interested, but we need to highlight Nia DaCosta the DIRECTOR!!! thank you!!”

During one of Birds of Prey’s fight sequences, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) identifies a teammate’s vulnerability and provides a critical assist — by lending her a hair tie. This small act of sisterhood is as familiar in an everyday context as it is surprising in the DC Extended Universe. It’s one of the many ways that Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) differs from its superhero movie forebears: It not only stars women, it was made by them, too. “There’s more women in front [of] and behind the camera than any movie I’d worked on, which is pretty incredible,” says Robbie, who also produced the film. “It was partly a conscious decision, but it also always felt like the organic, right choice to make.”