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http://loldarian.blogspot.com/2008/09/movie-reviewnoahs-arcjumping-broom.html
how excited am i? too excited. i couldn't be
anymore excited unless it were asian and an all pacific
islander amerikan queer cast.
i believe that art can synchronize the already
existing pulse of resistance in people. i believe
it is necessary to laugh and have desires and
see yourself reflected in a daily way that isn't
essentially mainstream or presented by people outside
your community, but instead powerful and available
to the masses, created for us and by us.
"Noah's Arc: Jumping The Broom" is going to be
released in new york city october 24th and in selected
theatres over the country. i have an outfit
picked out, a posse to come with, secret snacks
i am going to sneak in with me. i have an almost
debilitating crush on the protagonist of the
show and now film, noah played by daryl stephens.
i've identified with his character through and
through as he swayed from different lovers, struggled
with his work as a writer and fell in love but
made disastrous mistakes.
what also makes the show pivotal and sacred to
of color audiences, specifically black gay audiences,
is that there is a striving for complexity within
each character, there are moments that can actually
step out of the stereotypes of the gay as funny
clown, promiscuous, uptight, straight acting, and
feminine being equated with weak. shining examination
also discuss sexuality, race, and class together
as they relate and fluctuate and are affected in
the larger society. this show does what l word
has a budget for and what queer as folk could not
imagine.
i appreciate the self-reliance the show has
taken on, the complexity of blackness portrayed
by experience and skin pigment, blackness
also including latinoness. introduced is
femme phobia or what i think is stated as
effemiphobia (root word being effeminate).
a common delusion and immature heteronormative
force that creates hate against people, specifically
biological men who are effeminate. in this
there are depictions of drag queens, of drag
performance, gender queerness, but specifically
a femininity in black gay men that creates dialogue
about power, attraction, and internalized hate
among gay black folx.
sickened by biance's co-optation in her song
and video, "get me bodied" where she clearly
and evidently steals black gay/drag/transgender
womyn's culture in choreography, outright lyrical
reference, and performance, Noah's Arc deliberates
as close of a reflection of a cultivated, rich, and
bountiful black gay culture more than any show/film
has before.
given that Noah's Arc is a LOGO/MTV project and
that in previews of earlier auditions for its pilot,
(available on dvd disc sets of seasons 1 and 2),
the initial script's content was much more down-to-earth
and less whitened for mainstream consumption.
i do think that the creator patrik-ian polk has
done an unbelievably strong task at maintaining an
intention for his audience and his community
that glows despite the indelible corporate
influence.
there is more cultural critique that i go could
expand on-- the west hollywood as all of LA,
the ghettoization of some characters, the bad
acting by some of the visiting guest stars,
the tacky monogamous relationships that
need to stop being a hot mess--- i still
very much love the show and am happy that black
queerness is and has been a definitive
impact on mainstream culture and now with
the Noah's Arc momentum, more people of
color and other cultures can do more than imagine
themselves as figments of the television
industry as background or maids or pirates or
criminals. we can be what are and enact our
daily lives as valid entertaining and powerful
media.
how excited am i? too excited. i couldn't be
anymore excited unless it were asian and an all pacific
islander amerikan queer cast.
i believe that art can synchronize the already
existing pulse of resistance in people. i believe
it is necessary to laugh and have desires and
see yourself reflected in a daily way that isn't
essentially mainstream or presented by people outside
your community, but instead powerful and available
to the masses, created for us and by us.
"Noah's Arc: Jumping The Broom" is going to be
released in new york city october 24th and in selected
theatres over the country. i have an outfit
picked out, a posse to come with, secret snacks
i am going to sneak in with me. i have an almost
debilitating crush on the protagonist of the
show and now film, noah played by daryl stephens.
i've identified with his character through and
through as he swayed from different lovers, struggled
with his work as a writer and fell in love but
made disastrous mistakes.
what also makes the show pivotal and sacred to
of color audiences, specifically black gay audiences,
is that there is a striving for complexity within
each character, there are moments that can actually
step out of the stereotypes of the gay as funny
clown, promiscuous, uptight, straight acting, and
feminine being equated with weak. shining examination
also discuss sexuality, race, and class together
as they relate and fluctuate and are affected in
the larger society. this show does what l word
has a budget for and what queer as folk could not
imagine.
i appreciate the self-reliance the show has
taken on, the complexity of blackness portrayed
by experience and skin pigment, blackness
also including latinoness. introduced is
femme phobia or what i think is stated as
effemiphobia (root word being effeminate).
a common delusion and immature heteronormative
force that creates hate against people, specifically
biological men who are effeminate. in this
there are depictions of drag queens, of drag
performance, gender queerness, but specifically
a femininity in black gay men that creates dialogue
about power, attraction, and internalized hate
among gay black folx.
sickened by biance's co-optation in her song
and video, "get me bodied" where she clearly
and evidently steals black gay/drag/transgender
womyn's culture in choreography, outright lyrical
reference, and performance, Noah's Arc deliberates
as close of a reflection of a cultivated, rich, and
bountiful black gay culture more than any show/film
has before.
given that Noah's Arc is a LOGO/MTV project and
that in previews of earlier auditions for its pilot,
(available on dvd disc sets of seasons 1 and 2),
the initial script's content was much more down-to-earth
and less whitened for mainstream consumption.
i do think that the creator patrik-ian polk has
done an unbelievably strong task at maintaining an
intention for his audience and his community
that glows despite the indelible corporate
influence.
there is more cultural critique that i go could
expand on-- the west hollywood as all of LA,
the ghettoization of some characters, the bad
acting by some of the visiting guest stars,
the tacky monogamous relationships that
need to stop being a hot mess--- i still
very much love the show and am happy that black
queerness is and has been a definitive
impact on mainstream culture and now with
the Noah's Arc momentum, more people of
color and other cultures can do more than imagine
themselves as figments of the television
industry as background or maids or pirates or
criminals. we can be what are and enact our
daily lives as valid entertaining and powerful
media.