Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Yasuke 2021

  ★★★★½ Added

  In every review I've read of Netflix's new series Yasuke, none had recognized the intertwining of friendship, love and loyalty, across universes.

  Instead, the surrounding discourse kept the anime chained to its past rather than opening it up to the possibility of alternate pasts and futures. In this Short Ends article, I look at how Afrofuturism makes space for honouring the memory of those before us, in the present.

  Excerpt: While the anime features genre-bending elements of sci-fi, blaxploitation, fantasy,…

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  Roots Time 2006

  ★★★★ Added

  In tracing generational and historical legacies, my most recent article looks at the personal and communal ties we have to one in Silvestre Jacobi’s film Roots Time (2006). Driven by the lack of literature and presence of Jamaican films in popular media, Roots Time pleasantly reminded me of my own experiences of family, friends, and the communities I belong to (even if, at the moment, I’m separated from them).

  Excerpt: As part of the black diaspora, one encounters rumours, myths,…

Popular reviews

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  Sisters in the Struggle 1991

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Mar 2021 3

  A piece I wrote for Short Ends Collective that looks at how Canada appropriates multicultural narratives that sustain white supremacy within our system.

  Myself being implicated in this system as a biracial woman born in Canada, I reflect on the absence of new beginnings that I and many others encounter every day and how these narratives repeat themselves generation after generation.

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  Blade 1998

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Jul 2021

  Honestly the best superhero movie I've actually liked in a long ass time