@mayascade.bsky.social
always: creator & curator blackfilmarchive.com 💌: maya@blackfilmarchive.com + soon: incoming president / owner of milestone films. film curator + writer + curious about the world. based in los angeles.
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👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻Tomorrow is become TODAY 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
@angelicabastien.bsky.social and i answer the question of the moment: "what does "sinners" record-breaking oscar nomination haul mean?"
for the academy? everything.
for the future of black film? history tells us it won't change much.
for @vulture.com.
Not the main point of this piece but good that people keep remembering this
tomorrow (3/13) at 2 pm ET/ 11 am PT, @angelicabastien.bsky.social and i are going live on substack to discuss the oscars and the future of black film. join us! 🫂
Once ‘Sinners’ became the most-nominated movie in Oscars history, supporting the film’s awards chances began to feel like a civic duty. But as Angelica Jade Bastién & Maya S. Cade write, the Academy needs ‘Sinners’ more than it needs a win.
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"Oscars can placate. Oscars can shore up the industry’s low esteem. But audiences are better off expanding what they believe Black cinema can be by turning their gaze away from what Hollywood believes it can be."
from group chat fodder to an article in @nymag.com. 🙏 grateful to my friend angelica for her generosity of spirit with citation as generative collaboration.
+ grateful to the vulture editors who sharpened this piece.
@angelicabastien.bsky.social and i answer the question of the moment: "what does "sinners" record-breaking oscar nomination haul mean?"
for the academy? everything.
for the future of black film? history tells us it won't change much.
for @vulture.com.
thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️
thanks ned!
🥹 thank you icon. so grateful 🥰❤️
CHARLES BURNETT x BOOTS RILEY
on the cover of A RABBIT’S FOOT.
cover story by me! on newsstands 3/14.
...but the works of modern 'stans' operate an intricate network of obsession without the pay, authority, or access that a fan magazine would've allowed. stanning has boiled down to becoming an all consuming unpaid internship.
friday
Yep, that's right. DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, and VHS tapes are cool again. 😎📼📀
Marketplace correspondent Nova Safo recently checked out Los Angeles’ popular video rental store Vidiots to see what the fuss is all about: www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...
New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:
tumblr has also changed how film is discussed. screenshots of easily digestible moments having more prominence than scenes, texture, and the feel of a movie has permanently altered our relationship to cinema as spectator.
as tumblr turns 19 today, i’m thinking about how it has re-ordered our online visual sense, curation, and how internet users talk to each other.
tumblr remains the map the internet uses as a guide, the fountain virality drinks from, and the basis of algorithmic understanding of culture.
what's done is never final. history reminds us that the end of one era marks the beginning of another.
Depraved.
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya Refugee Dumped by Border Patrol, Dies in Cold – Mother Jones
www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
and the beat goes on ✨
Attention small business owners: @baltimorebeat.bsky.social is now offering pay what you can ads! baltimorebeat.com/paywhatyouca...
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This is a very, very good feature by E. Alex Jung on fanfiction, fujoshis and the Heated Rivalry phenomenon: www.vulture.com/article/heat...
M/M (male/male) romance has mostly remained in the basement of pop culture on fan fiction forums and e-books. Through ‘Heated Rivalry,’ what has been fringe has been let loose. The fujoshi switch has been flipped, and now everyone’s fujoing out.
season 2! 👯
The final film in our Three By Charles Burnett series is his charming 1999 drama THE ANNIHILATION OF FISH, now restored in a beautiful 4K restoration and screening on Feb 23-25 🎣
🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/the-a...
