Can you recognize leadership when it doesn’t dominate? -Lovette Jallow

Good morning you handsome and gorgeous lot. heyouneedtherapy.com

You are definitely not the only one. I saw the trailer and was like, ruh-roh. But it's always easier for us white folk to turn our attention outwards rather than inwards when it comes to racism. Actually, it's sort of our whole thing. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

I hadn’t seen this review from @brookeobie.bsky.social until it was just dropped in the replies but I’m moving it up because I think it’s worth reading how someone who is a Black women critic is responding to this film

Also, and again, maybe just me. But the more I thought about it the more I felt the film Children of Men (2006) did it better.

I am not a film critic. I am an expert on race, gender and media. I thought it totally missed the mark on those things. I understand it feels profoundly relevant to the political moment. I understand why parts feel cathartic. I was distracted by feeling like the gender/race politics were from 1970.

I saw One Battle After Another and did not enjoy it. I am clearly the outlier but I thought the sexual politics of the film were bad. The representation of Black women revolutionaries was painful and I think the fixation on interracial sex and a mixed race character is a hackneyed trope.

An aside: there is an interesting absolutionism happening w/ some folks saying they won’t see it b/c of these critiques. Your choice. I engage w/ deeply flawed art and media all the time b/c it’s part of the Zeitgeist and I find it useful to understand how these forms attempt to engage politics.

Another—I am not an outlier among Black women reviewers of this film :)

When you’re here for a good time AND a long time💙2♠️💙

And then I pop up on the scene like a Spirit Halloween

Everybody eat the fruit while ignoring the root, and they gon damn sure try to squeeze all the juice out of you

“Like the monkey in the Sufi story, who upon seeing a fish in the water rushes to rescue it from drowning by carrying it up into the branches of a tree.” Anzaldüa

If you listen long enough, you’ll learn how to beat’em

no widely accessible outlets will be viable for news as we’ve come to understand it anymore.

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One day NGL gonna get hacked and ya’ll will have to answer for all that crazy shit

When your biases are so egregiously tilted to one side you think acknowledgment is compromise. Then when you’re asked to do the work of repairing and restoring you feel like you’re being punished and over-corrected. Acknowledgment ≠ Accountability

That picture was taken at “breakfast” btw. We already sippin and skinny dippin😍🤤🤩

cannot say the same 💀 but if it had been a woman it would've been a different story

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If only for one night

You’re a strong human.

Took that baby to an R&B party and *WE* were the R&B 🔥❤️‍🔥🔥❤️‍🔥🔥🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

Heaven can wait

I let a Sagittarius have me and I been winnin ever since

Whole shit lookin like Black Mirror meets Boondocks

Man that airport Popeyes hit so good

It does in some airports 🌚 And yes, it’s good!

Me…only not super quiet

Pusha T’s energy resonates with a very quiet part of me. It scares me and makes me laugh all at the same time… I can’t really explain it.

Idk who makes the rules to bein an adult, but evidently I’ve gone from a rambunctious kid to a (w/e the adult version is) rambunctious adult I have playful energy & I spend it on gettin shit done, makin adventures out of little things, and on utility maintenance .pipe laying specifically🙃

Baby fine as vellus

That woman saw my woman and considered trying women

Hard to cry about it if I wouldnt die about it

Every fantasy I have is my hands on that silhouette

“Cuz he’s hot”

Nothing shapes your reality like the things you tell yourself

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She had to remind him that public kissing wasn’t in the contract, nor was pretending they were in love for free. 😂😂

Black strapless satin dress Black long sleeve gloves and some pearls. All for my girl She deserve the world

No, it's a bonus if you're winding down for the night.

Is it a bad idea to spike your tea?🙃

Snark & Shade tho🤔 blueskyroast.com

“I don’t gaslight I use matches”

Yall have your own/alternate ending to a fairy tale or childhood story? I bet we could put together a funny ass “3 little bears” or sumn😂

If you read the 3 billy goats gruff when you were little then you know what happens to trolls.