Tape Freaks

Representation matters: my six favourite black female fictional lawyers.

Clair Huxtable (The Cosby Show)

Maxine Shaw (Living Single)

Joan Clayton (Girlfriends)

Jessica Pearson (Suits)

Olivia Pope (Scandal)

Things you may not know about the legendary South African actor John Kani, who play’s T’challa’s Father/King T’chaka in Black Panther.

He lost his left eye to a beating he received from Apartheid Police and wears a glass prosthetic eye.

in the mid 1980′s, he performed in a play called “Miss Julie in Cape Town” Half of the audience walked out of the production when he kissed a white woman on stage – an act that resulted in death threats and an assassination attempt, in which he was stabbed 11 times.

in 1985, he lost his brother who was killed whilst reading a poem at a funeral when Apartheid police started shooting up at the mourners.

all of this happened in a minority ruled white supremacist country formed ON land where his people where the natives and the majority, apartheid “ended” in 1994.

sources:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/dominic-cavendish/4589941/The-Tempest-How-a-legend-of-African-theatre-was-stabbed-11-times.html

http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/bonisile-john-kani

not only that but his “evil plan” was to send woody and the other toys from woody’s line to a museum for preservation

mike, lucas, dustin, and el are in a weird sci-fi coming of age story where the group of plucky misfit kids solve the mystery and test their friendship along the way

nancy and jonathan are in a horror movie where the teenagers have to kill the monster set against a backdrop of high school drama and romance

joyce and hopper are in a conspiracy thriller where the adults have to figure out what shady stuff the government is up to while also dealing with the difficulties of their personal lives

“My entire career is tied up with the man,” Smith said of Weinstein on his podcast Hollywood Babble-On. “I just wanted to make some fucking movies, that’s it…. And no fucking movie is worth all this. Like, my entire career, fuck it, take it. It’s wrapped up in something really fucking horrible.”

A very important thread. Another damning example of white men ripping off work by QTPOC. I will be joining the boycott of this film that has appropriated the work of Reina Gossett, and you should too. Fuck David France and fuck Netflix for literally stealing and profiting off Reina Gossett’s work.