Donât watch the Marsha P. Johnson documentary on Netflix
From Reina Gossettâs Instagram:
reinaxgossett: #deepshare #realtruth this week while Iâm borrowing money to pay rent, david france is releasing his multimillion dollar netflix deal on marsha p johnson. iâm still lost in the music trying to #pay_it_no_mind and reeling on how this movie came to be and make so much $ off of our lives and ideas. david got inspired to make this film from a grant application video that sasha & I made and sent to Kalamazoo/Arcus Foundation social justice center while he was visiting. He told the people who worked there -i shit you not- that he should be the one to do this film, got a grant from Sundance/Arcus using my language and research about STAR, got Vimeo to remove my video of Sylviaâs critical ây'all better quiet downâ speech, ripped off decades of my archival research that i experienced so much violence to get, had his staff call Sasha up at work to get our contacts then hired my and Sashaâs *ADVISOR* to our Marsha film Kimberly Reed to be his producer. And thatâs just the shit I have the spoons to name. TRUSTđ„THERE'Sđ„SOđ„MUCH đ„MOREđ„. This kind of extraction/excavation of black life, disabled life, poor life, trans life is so old and so deeply connected to the violence Marsha had to deal with throughout her life. So I feel so much rage and grief over all of this & STAR must have some serious level plan on moving through manyâand clearly by any means necessaryâto get the message out⊠So tonight Iâm channeling high priestess energy to show me the honey throne cuz this storm queen is đđ«đ±
Donate to the fund for Reinaâs film Happy Birthday, Marsha!Â









