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Kind of Blue's JournalWhite Lies, a New Zealand period piece
White Lies is a story set in colonial New Zealand. It's a clash of 3 women: Paraiti, a medicine woman facing prohibition of traditional medicine; Maraea, an arrogant servant of equally arrogant and condescending Rebecca, a rich young married pregnant white woman. Rebecca sends Maraea for Paraiti to assist in aborting her baby who could possibly destroy her position in European settler society.
Last weekend, my husband and I watched White Lies on Netflix. He noticed that men had no prominent roles in it at all. I noticed that but in another way, it's about women's business when men aren't around. I read a bunch of reviews and they all correctly stressed that the movie is about identity and protecting it. Finally, I wanted to know what the director thought. She's Mexican-born ex-pat living in New Zealand, Dana Rotberg.
Q: What's important to you when you make films about women and how does White Lies/Tuakiri Huna fit within your other work?
A: What I love about this film - and it’s something that was always in my head when I was writing the adaptation - is what happens in the moment when the male closes the door and goes into the world, to work, to provide, to produce. In that moment, another universe opens and awakens and it disappears and goes dormant again when the male comes back. That is a feeling that I always wanted to convey in this film…what happens in this villa in the absence of the man in what becomes a solely female universe.
https://wellywoodwoman.blogspot.com/2013/06/dana-rotberg-and-white-liestuakiri-huna.html
As heart-wrenching and beautiful as White Lies is, it felt good being in that universe where women make decisions with guidance and the support best for us. I think that you might find White Lies as moving as I do.
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A former prosecutor at the center of New York's notorious Central Park Five rape case faces strong backlash, after the release of a hard-hitting Netflix series. Linda Fairstein stepped down from the boards of a college and a non-profit charity. She was the top Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor when five teenagers were wrongfully convicted following the 1989 attack on a female jogger. Michelle Miller reports.Good News is she's been removed from Airbnb
Meshach Cisero and a few of his friends were looking to enjoy an evening together by renting an apartment in Manhattan through Airbnb for the weekend. However, they were faced with racial harassment by the apartment’s owner, only identified as Kate.Cisero, the owner of The Caged Bird restaurant in Washington, D.C., used social media to share details of his encounter with Kate.
Once the small group arrived at the Airbnb shortly after midnight, Kate began yelling at Cisero and his friends, telling them she felt “unsafe” and said they would steal her items and destroy her property. She also asked them, which “monkey” would sleep on the couch.
Airbnb has since removed Kate from the platform and apologized to Cisero and his friends.
“We have a strict nondiscrimination policy, which we are enforcing to remove the host from our platform,” Airbnb released in a statement. “We’re thankful to them for bringing this to our attention so we could take action.”
https://rollingout.com/2019/06/03/racist-airbnb-host-calls-black-guests-monkeys-before-forcing-them-to-leave/2/
https://twitter.com/mcisero24/status/1134739663057555456
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