the film” paris is burning” was strong and passionate. the film provides a vision of a fierce proclamation that LBTQ lives matter, now as they did then. in the ball world they can express who they are without trying to hid themselves of their true identities that excluded them from the normal world. The performances are the most important and influential parts of the film. After the performances you can see the joy and wonder on their faces, conveying just how much it means to them to be able to perform and let their personality fly. Not only was ” paris is burning” emotional, but it also made me feel compassion to many of the individuals in the film.

the reading ” the combahee river collective statment” was a black feminist organisation that was active between 1974 and 1980. The group was created because there was sense that both the feminst movment or civil rights movement didn’t reflect the particular needs of black women. It was unfair that during the american women’s movement but didn’t gain enough credits for it. They believed that all work should be organised to benfit and equally distributed amongst the workers. It really amazes me how much the system really fails us and not much has been done about it.