Tag: black panther

Not that anyone needs my input on Black Panther, but I thought it was the best thing Marvel has ever produced, yet it belongs entirely to its makers and its audience and is a Great Film, no matter how you label it.  

There are many campaigns to help others see it and it’s great to support them, I hope you can. 

On a slightly related note, I’m seeing campaigns for A Wrinkle in Time as well – critics have been hitting this one very hard, a little too hard in my opinion (the Guardian review made me so cross I had to go outside) and it’s easy to forget this is a film targeted to young people. Whatever flaws it may have, it can still inspire. 

Here is a link to Mari Copeny’s GoFundMe for AWIT to help kids in Flint, Michigan see the film. Mari is ten years old and does a lot of fundraising for Flint (she’s also set on being POTUS), so please offer her some support if you can. 

Performative allyship

cishetsrgross:

khalifaziz:

I see more posts by white people asking if it’s “okay” for them to see Black Panther than I do see them asking for links to charity campaigns trying to help young Black kids see the movie. 

which is to say the BP tags have like three of the former posts every day, but I have yet to see a SINGLE post by a white person asking people to send them links for campaigns they can support. 

I need someone to realize that this is the pinacle of performative allyship.

they’re out here trying to get their hoodpass into wakanda but aren’t ready to let Jerome hold a dollar. They want to be invited to the cookout, but won’t even bring a bag of ice. They want to think themselves the ‘special white people’ but don’t actually want to do the work of the special white people.

and before you, white person clearly missing the point of this posts asks, yes, you CAN reblog this if it’s to show support of the message.

Here’s some links, btw, to gofundmes that still need funding for helping black kids see Black Panther:

https://www.gofundme.com/help-steel-kids-see-black-panther

https://www.gofundme.com/tmals-scholars-black-panther-event

https://www.gofundme.com/black-panther-challenge-BGCN

https://www.gofundme.com/eotowakanda

https://www.gofundme.com/send-the-kids-to-black-panther

https://www.gofundme.com/helpkidsseeblackpantherphilly

https://www.gofundme.com/help-bronx-kids-see-black-panther

https://www.gofundme.com/Help-Ghanas-Kids-See-Black-Panther

https://www.gofundme.com/help-kids-in-bk-see-black-panther

Danai Gurira on Being a ‘Black Panther’ Rock Star

danaigurirasource:

I would give my eye teeth to protecting and preserving that nation. The idea that little girls can look at those who are closest to their leader and see they are women. And see these women walk the streets and be in charge. I thought how Okoye, as a little girl, must have looked up to that and said, “I want to be that one day. I want to be one of them.” I loved the idea of little girls running up to the Dora Milaje and just looking at them and waving at them as they walked by. I feel that they had to be rock stars in Wakanda. It’s something so important to preserve; that little girl needs to be able to grow up and become an Okoye, or a Shuri (Letitia Wright), or a Nakia; whichever her skills allow. All those things made me very passionate in how I approached the character and the work as a whole.

Danai Gurira on Being a ‘Black Panther’ Rock Star