celebrating drama

I have zero opin­ions what­so­ev­er about the slap felt round the world last night.

I’m more of­fend­ed by the fact that in a night of many im­por­tant firsts, the Acad­e­my felt that Will Smith de­served an Os­car for por­tray­ing a man who ob­ses­sive­ly con­trolled the lives of both his daugh­ters from the mo­ment they were born.

I don’t like Amy Schumer, but she wasn’t wrong when she quipped, 

“Af­ter years of Hol­ly­wood ig­nor­ing women’s sto­ries, this year we fi­nal­ly got a movie about the in­cred­i­ble Williams sis­ters’ … dad.”

 
In all se­ri­ous­ness though, let’s acknowledge:

·  The third woman in 94 years won Best Di­rec­tor.
·  A film that ex­plores deaf cul­ture won Best Pic­ture.
·  A film that ex­plores black cul­ture won Best Doc­u­men­tary.
·  The first queer Afro-Lati­na won an Os­car.
·  The first deaf man and sec­ond deaf per­former over­all won an Os­car.

And let’s not for­get this beau­ti­ful mo­ment:

 

I think there’s def­i­nite­ly too much at­ten­tion paid to celebri­ty dra­ma in our cul­ture, but at the same time, I also think peo­ple fo­cus on what they feel like they can manage.

 

—emi­ly duchaine

Flom­mist Emi­ly Duchaine lives in the Pa­cif­ic North­west. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and lis­ten to the Talk­ing Heads. She pre­tends to be a pro­fes­sion­al busi­ness­woman most days. Copy­right © 2022 Emi­ly Duchaine.

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