#65, #fakenews #realtalk #realtruth about black girls’ liberation
“Although the numbers of girls that are missing are unclear and the circumstances of their disappearances are continents and lifestyles away, we really don’t care do we? But for me, it’s time that black girls form a global army to take back the night …"
MARCH, 2017
An Instagram post claiming 14 girls had disappeared in D.C. over a 24-hour period went viral across social media on Thursday March 24 2017
“Behind every report of a missing young person is a family’s difficult story. Though almost all young people reported missing in D.C. quickly come home, readjusting isn’t easy. News4’s Kristin Wright spoke with the mother of one D.C. teenager who went missing Monday — and now is home with her family, who are still dealing with the emotions they felt when she was missing.” (Published Friday, March 24, 2017)
April, 2014
This lead me back in time to this story from the New York Times:
“LAGOS, Nigeria — Two and a half years after nearly 300 girls were kidnapped from a school in northeastern Nigeria, the government said on Thursday that 21 of them had been freed, the biggest breakthrough in an ordeal that has shocked the world and laid bare the deadly instability gripping large parts of the country. Boko Haram, the radical Islamist group that has killed thousands of civilians, overrun villages and terrorized the region, seized the girls from a school in the town of Chibok on April 14, 2014.”
February, 1983
Which lead me back to this fictional film …
“Born in Flames is a 1983 documentary-style feminist science fiction film by Lizzie Bordent hat explores racism, classism, sexism and heterosexism in an alternative United Statessocialist democracy,” according to Richard Brody. in a recent reevaluation of the film in The New Yorker. ‘All oppressed people have a right to violence,’ activist Flo Kennedy posits. ‘It’s like the right to pee: you’ve gotta have the right place, you’ve gotta have the right time, you’ve gotta have the appropriate situation. And believe me, this is the appropriate situation.'”
from “Born in Flames” (Lizzie Borden, 1983)
CONCLUSION:
When our fictional truths and are truthful fictions become blurred, what does a black girl/woman do? Thoughts?
See More:
- “The Political Science Fiction of Born in Flames,” Richard Brody
- F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing, Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner, eds.
- “Hashtag Feminism, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, and the Other #FemFuture,” Susan Loza
- “Queer Feminist Media Praxis,” Ada #5
