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Hey. Idk if this is me growing up or just being disillusioned with inter celebs etc. Im a 23 yr old trans man so I grew up and was inspired by chella on the YouTube community. But now I just…don’t like chella man anymore. I feel like…he became an industry plant? Over the pandemic asking fans for money to send to him directly to help others and not showing where the money was going exactly incident as well as just becoming older I noticed he seemed to almost want to become the next Keith haring or basquiat? He almost…now seems very fake? He takes deals with brands to be representation but doesn’t do much to call out certain brands for their faults etc.

Idk anymore

I give Chella credit in that he was one of the few transmen that I looked up while I was young, especially with him being BIPOC. Showing him to my family helped them understand me. But that's where the inspiration kinda stops, because it was painful to be surrounded by years-in-transition trans men online when I was absolutely nowhere I wanted to be. That was a me problem tho. But I also didn't know much about his whole donation incident.

Ig heres what I have to say. It's not great to view other people as your justification of your morals. We don't know how people have had to live or how they live now, we don't know what decisions they have to make, and we dont know what kind of fears or goals they have. Chella is allowed to do whatever he wants with his art or his modelling career, just like how I genuinely believe anyone else in the world is capable of making the right decisions for themselves (even if we dont like those decisions!). Im not really concerned with figuring out if hes an industry plant or a "class traitor" (lol) or even if he's "fake". To be honest, I'm all for BIPOC folks getting their $. Does that mean I enjoy seeing wealthy BIPOC folk perpetuate classism and racism? No. Just cuz someone is succeeding for themselves doesn't mean people cant critique them. I guess what Im saying is I see waaay too many people online take the things they enjoy and the people they follow as projections of their morals: "no! stop [Insert celebrity name] you're being problematic and its makes us fans look bad!" Like....Okay lmfao. People are grown adults and are going to make decisions for themselves. Just because you might enjoy a celebrity does not mean your morals are based on how good of a person they are.

and youre allowed to not like the same things anymore just like how people are allowed to change, for better or for worse. I think within online communities there is way too much pressure on "looking" like a good person versus actually being one...because sometimes BEING a good person makes you look absolutely vile in terms of online spaces/communities love of isolating, removing, and deleting "problematic" (and vulnerable) people from their spaces with no trial, discussion, or attempt at conflict mediation. Yea yea I do think people have every right to be criticized just as they have every right to make whatever decision they want, but what Im trying to get at is to really stop viewing anyone with a platform as someone you can other once they dont meet your standards. This is not the same as denouncing or critiquing someone for really egregious behavior (white supremacy, harrassment, bullying, interpersonal violence). Once you kinda start living by your own morals without needing other people's actions/behaviors to justify/define them, you learn to focus on building connections rather than destroying them.

again, this is a much nuanced topic and you prolly werent expecting me to go into this. but ive grown over the years and have engaged in some nasty and vile mob mentality behavior that i just dont vibe with anymore. im not really the kind of person now to speculate online or publicly what other people are doing or should be doing or whether theyre problematic or not. I don't really care about Chella man or most celebrities rn. People r just gonna be people, and I will always have empathy for those of marginalized identities. Free will, autonomy, and self determination goes both ways, but so does accountability, transformative justice, and reconciliation.

but also like kill ur idols lol

#muertoresponds #like yea its fun having people u follow and look up to man #does it take a lot of time to be following celebrities #there would be days i would just check up on all my micro celebrities #now i just dont give a fuck #theyre people im people we're people #we're all gonna change and do bad and do good #i dont like holding myself or anyone anymore to these fucked up online standards of looking like good people #idc idc idc #this was def not the answer u prolly wanted but its where im at and thats what i gotta say #have ur micro celebrities if u want but like yea #people r people #and so are u #critiques r valid but u cant hold anyone accountable unless they consent to be held accountable #like being held accountable means u choose to be part of the accountability process #not make a lil 5 min notes app apology and be forgotten about in a week because people find their next target #yadda yadda yadda #these r my thoughts

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Article: The Black Ballet Celeb Taking On Racism in Dance

Date: June 21, 2021

By: Mary Scott Manning

With a raft of Instagram followers and a modeling contract, the Washington Ballet’s Nardia Boodoo is as close as it gets to a pop celeb in the rarefied world of ballet. Now she’s trying to make that world more fair.

A ballerina, by definition, does not speak—at least not with words. The body is her language, and she spends her life mastering its vocabulary, usually at others’ direction: a casting list on the wall, a choreographer’s instructions, a critic’s review. For dancers of color, this fact has been doubly true.

But last year, after a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd, and organizations across the professional spectrum were called out by people of color for furthering systemic racism, the overwhelmingly white world of ballet wasn’t spared. One of the most influential voices in that conversation was a dancer with the Washington Ballet, 27-year-old Nardia Boodoo.

You may have seen her onstage, one of the company’s five Black dancers, or in the pages of Marie Claire—she’s a model repped by Wilhelmina who has starred in campaigns for Tory Burch, Chanel Beauty, and Nike. She began dancing only 13 years ago, but Boodoo, whose roots are Indo-Trinidadian, has soared into the pantheon of ballet celebrities, the object of teen worship and the subject of fan art (plus at least one look-alike doll).

What was never visible was the racism she endured on the way up. “Despite the fact that I work hard in rehearsal, throw myself into my art form and perform on international stages,” as she put it on Instagram on May 31, 2020, “when I return home”—to Bethesda—”I’m still most likely to be questioned and harassed for walking my dog late at night in an affluent area…that I reside in.”

This month, Boodoo appears in one of the Washington Ballet’s latest productions, choreographed by the renowned Black dancer Silas Farely. Yet some of her most important recent work has occurred behind the scenes over the past year as she pushed the company to own ballet’s history of prejudice and its responsibility to change. “She’s just been a really, really important voice in helping us to galvanize and discuss all very important issues,” says Julie Kent, the company’s artistic director, issues that “haven’t really been addressed previously, and not just at the Washington Ballet but in ballet as an art form.”

When Boodoo started training at 14, Misty Copeland was making history as American Ballet Theatre’s first Black soloist in two decades, following trailblazing Black ballerinas such as Lauren Anderson and Raven Wilkinson. Boodoo’s peers at the Baltimore School for the Arts, meanwhile, were majority-African American, a “strong base,” she says, for a young artist of color. Boodoo earned a scholarship to Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet, then landed a coveted sport in the Washington Ballet’s studio company while still a teenager.

Leaving home, though, occasioned her first experiences with racial bias in ballet. “I’ve had someone who holds power say to me, ‘Well, because you stick out so much in the corps, you have to work so much harder, because everyone’s going to be looking at you,'” she says. “That’s not my fault that you only have one Black girl in the corps.”

It was the classic conundrum of a second generation. She wasn’t the one who broke down the door. But she still had to contend with an environment that was less than welcoming. And the pressure to fit a stereotype needled her. Virtually every professional Black dancer feels it: having to straighten curly hair, receiving costumes with mesh that doesn’t match their skin tone, wearing the pink tights that make light-skinned dancers look lithe but appear to chop inches off those with darker complexions. Sometimes Boodoo’s colleagues would make hurtful comments. “Stupid things,” she recalls, “like ‘Your hair smells like Black-girl hair.'”

Rachael Parini, a friend and the only other Black dancer when Boodoo joined the company, remembers when they were asked to wear white powder in Giselle, a tradition in the ballet but a loaded proposition for Black performers. At a rehearsal, the stager hollered over the loudspeaker: “Rachael and Nardia, why are you blue?” The powder apparently had turned their brown skin another hue under the cool stage lights.

Parini describes her friend as a force—”not one to back down from a fight.” But back then, the women endured the routine microaggression quietly. For all its glamour, a ballet company is a workplace like any other, governed by hierarchies and unwritten social codes. With one big difference: There’s usually no formal human-resources department. “You sort of get this vibe that this is how it is,” says Boodoo. “The more subservient you are…the better and the more instruction you’ll receive…the further your career will go on.”

After starting to model, Boodoo met a photographer who was perplexed by her acquiescence. He described how the New York dancers he knew were much more assertive. It was a revelation: Boodoo’s confidence and following grew. She became an apprentice at the Pennsylvania Ballet, then returned to DC, becoming a full company member in 2019.

By the time the country was protesting for racial justice and dancers of color began organizing over Zoom, she was ready to speak out. “To all the dancers that don’t feel supported by their companies,” she posted to Instagram on June 1, 2020, “I think it’s time to make some changes and to hold them accountable.” Andrea Long-Naidu, a former New York ballet star and a past teacher of Boodoo’s, looked on with pride: “When I had her at Dance Theatre of Harlem, she wasn’t aware of her powers yet.”

Seeing her staff in pain after George Floyd’s Killing, Kent convened an all-company Zoom. Voice cracking, Boodoo recounted her experiences, explaining that the bias often presented itself as overtly as it did implicitly: The problem wasn’t simply getting passed over for a role but also being told her face looked “too ethnic” for the part.

Kent, who is white, listened on the other side of the screen, distinctly aware of the vulnerability on display among her dancers. A former principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, she performed on global stages and had a part in the beloved 2000 movie Center Stage. “I have a unique role and responsibility in order to move [the art form] forward,” she says, “and allow for the kind of career and love that I had to be possible for as many people as possible.”

Kent inherited one of the country’s most diverse companies from her predecessor, Septime Webre, who had recruited worldwide and electrified the institution’s cultural cachet. She had added 16 dancers to the corps, almost half of whom identify as BIPOC—and now they were hurting. There’s also the matter of competition. The Ballet has to compete with bigger acts imported by the Kennedy Center. In some ways, its relevance hinges on broadening ballet’s historically older, white audience with admirers whose woke-ness won’t tolerate notions of “diversity” that predate Black Lives Matter—or that feel performative.

Kent formed a working group with members from every department to tackle issues of inclusion and equity, and an outside consultant has been guiding their monthly meetings and homework. Boodoo, who represents the performers along with Oscar Sanchez, a Cuban dancer, had expected pushback. But her fan base and platform—a social-media audience that, at nearly 50,000 on Instagram, is within striking distance of some top New York ballerinas’—would have been tough for the company to ignore.

As wider discussions started, though, it became clear that white privilege was a new concept to some. Boodoo was dismayed that some colleagues were unfamiliar with certain civil-rights leaders, so she helped organize a remote study of the book The New Jim Crow. To prod management, she and fellow colleagues of color met privately to hash out ideas for the company at large. It’s been exhausting to divide her energy between institutional matters and the rigors of performing: “You want to just focus on your art form, you just want to focus on being beautiful, being a strong dancer, and contributing to the task at hand.”

Partly because of Covid limits on gatherings and partly because they had to start with building a shared vocabulary, the working group’s progress has felt slow. But they’re in the process of finalizing recommendations to address the places where inequity creeps in. Money, donors, time, and institutional commitment, meanwhile, all could limit their progress. The group, for instance, envisions a Nutcracker free of racist tropes—in particular, the traditional Arabian and Chinese dances, which play up offensive cultural stereotypes. But ticket sales help fund the annual budget. Will the public support changes to the beloved show? Can the company handle that financial risk?

The stakes—Black dancers continually being overlooked or leaving ballet—feel higher now that the work has begun. Still, Boodoo says she feels hopeful that the company will evolve. “She’ll be someone,” says Long-Naidu, “that’ll go down in the history books of Black ballerinas.” An artist who championed a new act for the ballet, or at least one who tried.

#article #nardia boodoo #ballet #racism #anti black racism

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nadja-antipaxos · 4 years

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Ok so a lot of you know I’m an aspiring comedy writer and actress, but I am so angry at the industry for going back to work when the States have not gotten a handle on COVID19 AT ALL! NBC reported that EVERY 80 SECONDS someone dies of COVID-19 in the US. Our government stokes fires of division every day. From day one, they have politicized this virus to the point where so many people don’t believe it’s a big deal. We don’t have the leadership or the healthcare system.

We need to be looking out for each other and celebrities with public platforms are acting like this is over. They’re going back to set. They’re going out of the country to film things when regular citizens can’t leave the country because it’s too dangerous. How can they say “wear a mask and social distance” out of one side of their mouth and then boast about going back to set? “This is serious, but I’m gonna peace out and make money I don’t need and risk lives doing it.” They say they hate Trump, but then they’re providing support to his base that everything is okay.

I can’t stand it. Social distance. Wear masks. Don’t listen to the president or these celebs. Listen to science. Get tested. Even countries that have contained the virus need to be safe. Contained does not equal eradicated. Stay safe! We don’t have a vaccine! And even then the most vulnerable rely on herd immunity! Please! It’s anti-racist to be safe because this virus affects poor and BIPOC communities MORE than wealthy white ones. Please! This is LIFE or DEATH! ❤️❤️❤️

#covid 19

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New Me Too accusations hit A-list celebrities, streamers, influencers

The surge of accusations echoes the 2017 “Me Too” motion, inspired by the Harvey Weinstein allegations, which included prevalent use of the “#MeToo” hashtag.

This time, viral accusations of sexual misconduct versus comic Chris D’Elia seemed to trigger a new wave of accusations versus A-list teenager stars, video game banners and developers, battling professionals, and internet personalities.

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Several industries and internet-adjacent neighborhoods appear to be in the middle of a huge “Me Too” moment, as hundreds of sexual assault claims have been magnified throughout social media platforms over the previous week.

In the video gaming market alone, The New York Times reports that more than 70 individuals, most of them ladies, have come forward with allegations that consist of gender-based discrimination, unwanted sexual advances, and sexual assault.

Accusations against A-list celebrities like star Ansel Elgort, singer Justin Bieber, and “Riverdale” cast member Cole Sprouse— who all denied the allegations– have trended on Twitter.

Online celebs like Twitter character Jovan Hill and TikTokers Ondreaz Lopez and Cody Orlove have all reacted to allegations of sexual attack and abuse, saying sorry to the accusers however rejecting the extent of their claims.

Additionally, huge stars in the professional fumbling neighborhood have been accused of differing degrees of sexual attack, with the majority of the accusations emerging on social networks utilizing the hashtag “#SpeakingOut,” Deadspin reported A few of the implicated dealt with instant consequences including shootings, as dozens of ladies in the fumbling community stepped forward in a matter of days.

People participating in rally to knock unwanted sexual advances and attack in Los Angeles, California, in2017

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But while some neighborhoods seem taking the accusations seriously– especially in the streaming and wrestling markets, where there are hierarchies of authority figures that can veterinarian claims and hold people liable– much of the allegations are being brought forward by either confidential figures that can’t be vetted, or are being vetted in a social networks environment dominated by teenagers and young people, where the quickly moving tide of public opinion is the only landscape being impacted by the claims.

Hence, considering that a lot of the allegations versus internet stars, artists, actors, and other public figures are being consulted with rejections, a suspicion that there’s a “ incorrect accusation pattern” going on has gotten traction.

However apart from a handful of claims that seem blatantly fictitious, it’s difficult to judge whether the rejections are sincere– and the idea that mainly girls are comprising allegations for “clout” is rooted in a mainly unfounded stigma against accusers that has actually trickled down through generations reaching today’s Gen Z posters.

Up until now, it appears that a lot of the current claims versus popular and internet-famous figures have fit a pattern: allegations are posted online, they acquire traction and are extensively accepted as honest, the accused posts their rejection, and the tide rapidly flips on the accuser. Without an objective vetting process of each allegation– which hasn’t occurred yet, offered of the speed of this cycle– posters seem to fluctuate from their desire to “believe females,” caused by the 2017 Me Too motion, and their desire to believe the accused, who are up until now mostly favored online figures.

Social network has been a specifying factor in the new Me Too wave, beginning with a viral thread about comic Chris D’Elia.

While the 2017 Me Too movement was largely stimulated by The New York Times and New Yorker‘s reports on Harvey Weinstein, which rollovered into physical activism like demonstrations, the present resurgence has up until now just happened in online spaces. If it continues to get steam– and if the allegations versus famous figures like Elgort and Bieber are either supplemented by reporting or elevated to legal action– it promises that the current burst of accusations could be amplified into something more similar to the global 2017 movement. Today, the most major claims and repercussions have been insulated in their particular communities: gaming and fumbling.

The rise in allegations can seemingly be attributed to the increase in social justice advocacy that’s happened following the killing of George Floyd, which inspired a burst of public demonstrations across the world. As more individuals relied on the internet throughout COVID-19 quarantine, anger over authorities brutality festered and eventually exploded into action. After Minneapolis burned and protesters were beaten throughout the US, some cops departments and cities have actually begun to change their policies.

Recently, internet-driven activism has actually sprung up elsewhere as people direct their cumulative outrage towards change. Pay disparities along racial lines and a lack of BIPOC representation in work environments has become a trending issue in numerous industries, including media and makeup In line with the anti-racism motion, cancel culture and viral callouts have both prospered, from capturing “Karens” on-camera to “ performative activism” reaction.

— SheRatesDogs (@SheRatesDogs) June 17, 2020

Her thread was magnified by the popular Twitter account “@SheRatesDogs,” which developed a thread with almost two lots accounts of ladies alleging that D’Elia had actually bugged them as teenagers and young adult females, soliciting both nude pictures and physical intimacy throughout encounters.

For the gaming market and streaming community, the wave of allegations appears to have begun on June 19, when five female implicated Twitch banner SayNoToRage of sexual harassment. Two women have most just recently made accusations about Bieber, MTV reports, consisting of one woman, Kadi, whose claims Bieber has actually not reacted to, and a confidential Twitter account developed the day the allegations were published under the name Danielle.

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) June 21, 2020

Both accounts have actually gone through examinations by random Twitter users, and the sentiment that Bieber was guilty– perpetuated, in part, by “antis,” or individuals who dislike Bieber for fan-related functions– till Bieber posted his counter-claims, which seemed to mostly sway viewpoint in the other direction. That being stated, there are still viral tweets and big discussions over whether Bieber and his group are lying, consisting of in the replies to his own tweets.

Bieber provided 15 tweets countering the viral allegations versus him, consisting of short articles, screenshots of purported emails about his Airbnb appointment, and an image of a purported invoice for a hotel appointment. The thread of his own evidence, together with his declaration that the allegations versus him “were factually difficult” which he will “be working with twitter and authorities to take legal action” seemed to encourage many of the social media users who were interested.

— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) June 22, 2020

Most of the accusations and the denials have actually taken place so quickly that there hasn’t been very much reporting, and little to no legal action, to vet the claims. Rather, the court of online popular opinion has actually been the environment where the existing Me Too wave is occurring. And since the characters being implicated have huge platforms and swaths of fans, there’s an inspiration to believe them over the accusers, many of whom are confidential and have claims that would need more extensive vetting to stand up in court or in a short article.

Offered the anonymous nature of a lot of the allegations, a narrative appears to be developing online that there is a “pattern” of incorrect accusations versus celebs, even though some of the accusers– like Lopez’s– have doubled down to say they aren’t lying, and the implicated is.

— James Charles (@jamescharles) June 22, 2020

There’s an established danger in right away thinking confidential and dubious claims.

As Sprouse and Lili Reinhart stated in response to claims about various “Riverdale” cast members that trended on Twitter, numerous of the allegations versus numerous “Riverdale” stars were revealed to relatively have actually come from from the exact same IP address, suggesting that a person individual was making numerous anonymous, dubious claims against numerous teenager stars. That exact same Twitter user suggested in a later tweet that they made incorrect accusations to show that a social networks mob will believe anything and that Sprouse was innocent.

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) June 22, 2020

But there’s likewise a risk in presuming that due to the fact that a handful of allegations aren’t real, the rest aren’t– a presumption that has silenced or delegitimized accusers throughout history.

The idea that claims are made to acquire online fame is an especially harmful mindset, since it contributes to a preconception that deters victims to come forward. The concept that accusers become famous themselves for making incorrect allegations against popular figures overlooked the backlash and hate from the implicated individual’s fans and from online neighborhoods devoted to assaulting females, such as those that organized projects during Gamergate

Authorities figures recommend that the number of rapes and sexual assaults that are never ever reported or prosecuted far exceed the number of males who are wrongfully charged for sex crimes they didn’t dedicate, and while fake rape allegations get a lot of attention, studies suggest that between only 2%and 10%of allegations are actually unfounded.

A timeline of K-pop fandom’s viral digital advocacy, from scheduling no-show tickets for Trump’s Tulsa rally to spamming racist hashtags

BLM demonstrations have actually flipped the script for influencers used to walking the line in between losing fans and political expression.

Politicians and influencers have actually been implicated of ‘virtue signaling’ during authorities cruelty protests, but the callouts could do more damage than good

Bon Appétit’s week from hell: How a deluge of accusations depicting a ‘harmful’ work culture left the publication in turmoil

Me Too Motion Sexual Attack Claims Chris D’Elia Fumbling

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