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If Cate Blanchett read fridge instructions to me, she'd still have my full attention

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How could she not. Have you /heard/ her voice???

#thingsthatshouldnothavebeenforgottenwerelost #allshalllovemeanddespair #hervoicelegitimatelyincreasesmypulserate

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im cured

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You can’t write a sci-fi story about slavery without citing Octavia Butler

LINK: Octavia Butler did this in 1979.

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Say her name too

#KorrynGaines

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(via Fat-Booty Butch Buys A Suit On A Budget)

Super cool article about a queer Latinx woman who went on a suit-buying adventure. Definitely relate to the body image struggles in here.

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Seen Ghostbusters in theaters twice. I can confidently tell you that this sequence is not any less spectacular the second time through.

#i think i may have hurt my seatmates #ghostbusters #kate mckinnon #sweet lesbian jesus #les go #double barrel #two guns are better than one #epic lady action sequence #climax of this film #jillian holtzmann

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Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film (2008)

by Adilifu Nama

“Science fiction film offers its viewers many pleasures, not least of which is the possibility of imagining other worlds in which very different forms of society exist. Not surprisingly, however, these alternative worlds often become spaces in which filmmakers and film audiences can explore issues of concern in our own society. Through an analysis of over thirty canonic science fiction (SF) films, including Logan’s Run, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Back to the Future, Gattaca, and Minority Report, Black Space offers a thorough-going investigation of how SF film since the 1950s has dealt with the issue of race and specifically with the representation of blackness.

Setting his study against the backdrop of America’s ongoing racial struggles and complex socioeconomic histories, Adilifu Nama pursues a number of themes in Black Space. They include the structured absence/token presence of blacks in SF film; racial contamination and racial paranoia; the traumatized black body as the ultimate signifier of difference, alienness, and “otherness”; the use of class and economic issues to subsume race as an issue; the racially subversive pleasures and allegories encoded in some mainstream SF films; and the ways in which independent and extra-filmic productions are subverting the SF genre of Hollywood filmmaking.

The first book-length study of African American representation in science fiction film, Black Space demonstrates that SF cinema has become an important field of racial analysis, a site where definitions of race can be contested and post-civil rights race relations (re)imagined.”

Get it now here

Adilifu Nama is an Associate Professor at California State University Northridge. He is the author of the award-winning Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film, the first book length examination of the topic. Throughout his books, various articles, and presentations, Nama has explored how race and media intersect in television, film, and hip-hop music with a critical eye toward contextualizing black representation along with black racial formation.

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I bought this book about six months back and can confirm, it is amazing.

greyscatter

I wanna read this.

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Kate McKinnon in the new Ghostbusters international trailer

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#lmao i saw an article that was like ‘new ghostbusters trailer adds eye candy for the ladies’ #and they were talking about chris hemsworth #and i’m just like #bitch #they already have eye candy #her name is kate mckinnon and she makes all the ladies gay lmao (via @hellphine)