Reposted by JamilaLost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.blacksky.app · 01/02/2025Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy. 622267124642
Jamila @celestialconvert.bsky.social · 24/11/2024I might be moving back to LA next year. Quite possibly. Definitely. I hope so?🙃 I hope to connect with any one interested who lives out there and. Go. To. The movies! Because that’s mostly what I’ll be doing. That and lots of eating. And beach. I miss the beach. 150
Jamila @celestialconvert.bsky.social · 24/11/2024boxd.it/Egcwboxd.itAnora (2024)Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened ... 030
Jamila @celestialconvert.bsky.social · 20/11/2024No you’re right. I was being reductive for the pithy social media post😅Still…a little evil, no? 110
Jamila @celestialconvert.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I need a week off to cry for and watch the melodramatic lives of baby Timothy Hutton and evil Mary Tyler Moore. In other words: I need to rewatch Ordinary People 230
Reposted by Jamila🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I’ve written about 69 Palestinian films directed by women in my newsletter over the last year. This list collects them all with links where you can watch most of them. 🔗 boxd.it/xlziu/detail 23663368
Jamila @celestialconvert.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Never heard of that! Is it cotton candy grape adjacent? 110
Jamila @celestialconvert.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I watched Broken Flowers a long time ago when I was in my “I wanna understand why people love Bill Murray so much” phase. Such a sad movie. Didn’t realize it was a Jarmusch. 100
Jamila @celestialconvert.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Gonna use this site to write and talk about films, books, and tv shows and that’s really it. I kind of lost myself on Twitter. Maybe I’ll start a substack? In the meantime, here’s my LB filled with some takes I’m sure I’ve progressed from but I embrace the journey:) boxd.it/4585Fboxd.itJamila’s profileJamila uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 2,270 films watched. Favorites: The Panic in Needle Park (1971), Sweet Charity (1969), Crooklyn (1994), Chungking Express (1994). Bio: “…’Cause ... 020
Jamila @celestialconvert.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Oh no! I mean Handmaid’s tale was fetishistic. Sorry if that was unclear. I haven’t yet read Parable of a Sower but I love Octavia Butler 110
Jamila @celestialconvert.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I haven’t read the book but I couldn’t finish the show because I realized it was so clearly fetishizing the abuse at that point. I just had enough. 110
Jamila @celestialconvert.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Today’s a day, I just want to go about my business, running errands in my car while a Bernard Hermann score plays. True Noirvember vibes. 060
Reposted by JamilaBeing Reese @beingreese.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky 2997567048502
