“I Whet My Lips To Speak Your Name. To Kiss Your Hands, Curling Into The Posture Of Prayer, They Could

She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had been empty since she had been away.

– James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2018) directed by Heperi Mita

Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs, 1989)

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polynesians: have oral history that references a faraway land of andes-like mountains in the east, cultivated sweet potato (a plant native to central america, not the pacific), literally call sweet potato by the same word used by the quechua and aymara people indigenous to the andes, left physical remains on islands a few km off the coast of chile, have genetic links with native south americans

white academics: hmmm it's very doubtful polynesians contacted south america.. they probably just stopped permanently at easter island for some reason after systematically navigating the entire south pacific. the sweet potatos floated to them across the ocean

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Marianela Nunez and Federico Bonelli in rehearsal for Acosta’s Carmen