My opinion on Girlhood and the rest
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Every ten years or so, a French film is released, with the goal of portraying the real lives of black Frenchs. The characters always go through awful struggles and live in what filmmakers believe is black people’s natural environment: “les cites”. These films have the best intentions, but completely lack any kind of relatability, because they are made by people who are not black, and not even working class. In 2000, it was La Squale. In 2001, Fatou la Malienne. In 2014, it was Bande de filles (Girlhood). After these films, almost none of the actors go on to have a career.
Mon avis sur Bande de Filles et les autres films du même genre
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Tous les 10 ans environ, sort au ciné un film sur la banlieue qui “dépeint la réalité des cités” en utilisant des acteurs novices, sélectionné Les héroines noires de ces films semblent toutes sorties du même moule: elles vivent dans des cités, éduquées pour la majorité par des mères célibataires, subissent la pression de leurs grands frères cousins dans la cité qui s’opposent à leur émancipation.
We are the other
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On the 23rd of June, I found shelter against the flood inside a bar. The woman next to me asked me if I had voted. I told her I went to the polling station with my card to find my name crossed out. I wasn’t elligible to vote for a referendum which had the potential […]
Being a punk of color
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What does it mean to be a punk of colour? I discovered the whole punk aesthetic and movement one fateful day of May, at a manga convention, when I stumbled on to a dusty book of the manga Nana. Nana tells the story of two young women moving to Tokyo. One of them is the […]
L’impact des révoltes de 2005
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Cette année a marqué les 10 ans des révoltes qui ont commencé à Clichy sous bois en Octobre et Novembre 2005. Je n’espérais pas que le moindre évènement commémauratif aurait lieu, étant donné que les évènements ont été effacés de la mémoire collective, comme si la rage et le déni de ceux qui vivent dans des cités n’étaient qu’un feu de paille à éteindre rapidement.
10 years after the French Revolts
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This year marks the 10 year anniversary of the 2005 French unrest, which started after the accidental death of two teenagers, running away from the police. It lasted three weeks.
It is not an event the French media or political figures are keen to commemorate. After all, a right-wing politician, Nadine Morano, said a month ago that France “is a white race country”. It is still a long way for non-white French to be even acknowledged as such.
Sprintermn passing
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“Sprintermn”: The term was coined by one of my friend to describe that strange weather we do have in the UK, where in one day you have rain, sun and chilly evenings.
This year, my great British summer was neither long, nor hot. It was a sprintermn, who lasted from May until October: hot for two weeks, cloudy for the rest of the time. As always, I lived in my suitcase and wandered in so many places. It was a summer full of contradictions, just like my life.
Le Printomne s’en va
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IMG_1086 Le terme “printomne” alias “sprintermn” a été inventé par une amie pour décrire ce temps particulier que l’on a au Royaume Uni, ou il fait froid le matin, chaud l’après midi et le déluge le soir, à peu près une bone partie de l’année. C’est un terme difficilement traduisible en Français, alors j’ai trouvé […]
This blog is not dead (Not yet)
Hey, I’m back, just like terminator, but the hotter version. Anyway, these past few months I’ve been fairly active and had the truly amazing experience of being a peniliness, skint writer. Bukowski would have been proud of me (I know, I know). I’ve written the following: –Let’s talk about the Paris shootings, a controversial article […]
Ce blog n’est pas mort (pas encore)
Ok, je ne sais toujours pas à quoi sert un blog, mais je reviens toujours à celui-ci, un peu comme ci j’étais dans une relation malsaine (ce qui n’est pas le cas – j’espère…). L’année dernière j’ai eu la chance de voir mes articles publiées dans des magazines à tirages nationaux et internationaux…Mais j’ai pas […]