*regrets not drinking water during the day* *drinks 3 bottles at 2 am to compensate*

Summer Looks™

Me

“But what was so interesting was the final episodes in which they did specific flashbacks of Poussey to showcase how special and not-a-troubler-maker she was. Even in the portrayal of her ability to teach her new partner, Soso, how to not be antiblack and say n*gga (what. the. fuck.); Poussey is constantly shown as the type of black person that should’ve made it. When Poussey talks about how she was supposed to go to West Point, how she has traveled the world, and how much she loves books – it reminds me how Poussey’s death was supposed to instill the most sadness from audiences through the most anti-Black lens. We were supposed to feel debilitating heartbreak when we lost Poussey because she wasn’t a murderer, a drug dealer, illiterate, not shit, or “threatening”. Because of this, and because I know that none of the writers on this show are Black – I know that Poussey’s death was intentionally trauma porn and intentionally meant to captivate the white gaze through Black pain.”