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Texan. LaBouvier. 1st Black curator in @guggenheim 's 80 year history. Curator of Basquiat's Defacement: The Untold Story. Clinton's sister. Viola’s.
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Some of you have asked about my experience at the Guggenheim as the first Black curator, woman & creator of the Basquiat exhibition.
I'm still super proud of it. Working at the Guggenheim w/ Nancy Spector & the leadership was the most racist professional experience of my life.
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This drag SENDS me
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Get the entire fuck out of here. I am Chaédria LaBouvier, the first Black curator in your 80 year history & you refused to acknowledge that while also allowing Nancy Spector to host a panel about my work w/o inviting me
Erase this shit.
Please RT.
The Guggenheim is observing Blackout Tuesday, listening and grieving with the family of George Floyd and the many other black lives that have been lost. We stand in solidarity with those demanding justice and an end to racism.
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I met Toni Morrison during a book signing and I had two books to sign and she would only sign one and I was complaining and she acted like she didn’t hear me then looked at me and said “your audacity is fascinating, go take the world” I kid you not
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Oooff. Overhearing this relationship in trouble on the shuttle bus and the guy just told the girl, "I love you and I want to make us work but you're mean AS FUCK and it's wearing me down."
She's just looking at him like she knows he's right but doesn't know what to do about it.
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capitalism did this to him, capitalism broke Frankie's heart
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I have come to realize that the rich of today are different from the robber barons of yesteryear for a few reasons, but mostly b/c they are deeply uneducated, uninterested in the arts and humanities for the public and do not have the good sense to at least pretend
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I love how Twitter really understood the "become ungovernable" assignment
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yall aren't going to like this, but Shein chose women that they thought would be desperate enough for the perks. Notice there are no thin White women here; it's a non-verbal messaging that this shit is beneath them, but they called in women that they don't think are
They only invited people with zero critical thinking, eating this propaganda up!
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Occupation is temporary, drip is forever
Just a photo of my dad wearing a Palestine flag tracksuit in the 80s
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It is not helpful to tell people of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, etc that they should move. First of all, most of you saying this have no space.
Two -- there is no where to go. This country is collapsing colonial project. This is it. Where you are is where you fight.
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Her: "It feels like whatever is wrong with me...like, I'll always be like this and I've tried to work on my anger issues and I'm still like this. I know you deserve someone better than this"
Him: I want a better YOU not someone else. Whatever is wrong I want to fix it
A KEEPER
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Can you imagine a tall man in a tweed cost telling you,
I DON'T WANT SOMEONE BETTER I WANT A BETTER YOU
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Bitch go to therapy, NOW and keep this man who loves you
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Every girl needs a year where she’s just a socialite
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Toni basically said go take the world but STFU in MY face
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Congratulations to Kamala Harris and Maya Rudolph
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LADY PLEASE GO TO THERAPY SO YOU CAN KEEP THIS MAN IN A GORGEOUS TWEED COAT WHO LOVES YOU
I want them to get through this
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Her: "You're not perfect at all and it feels like you don't know that."
Him: "I do know that and I'm always working on it I fail, I know. A lot. But it just seems like you don't know how to talk through how you feel with me and you're too old to not know how to talk me"
Damn
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She's crying and leaning against his chest (I'm bad with numbers but he's at least 6'1") and he's carrying the bag from Whole Foods and wrapping an arm around her
Him: "I love you [nickname]. And I know that you love me I just...am tired of fighting you. I want to love you."
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Me, single and dirty and sitting next to a man playing Cam'ron on his portable red speakers:
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He told her right to her face the thing she and the rest of media cannot and will not do. He called her thirsty, a fool and broken and smiled while doing it.
And he’ll be back.
Ziwe: What can we do to get you to go away?
George Santos: Stop inviting me to your gigs.
Ziwe: The lesson is to stop inviting you places?
George Santos: But you can’t cuz people want the content.
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People always think Basquiat is my favorite artist, which is hilarious to me. I don’t have a favorite, but my favorite painting as much as I have one is this:
“Unfinished Painting” by Keith Haring, 1989. I don’t teach this painting/publicly discuss it b/c I can’t w/o tearing up
if you see this tweet, you have to mention one of your favorite paintings!
The first time seeing it in person is like a fist to the brain 🤜 🧠. Used to be in a hallway, now MoMA displays prominently in a main gallery. Faith Ringold, American People Series
#20
: Die (1967)
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I MISSED MY STOP WHICH WAS FURTHER SOUTH TO STAY AND LISTEN BECAUSE THIS WAS FOR THE AGES
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And to confirm what a lot of people have already asked:
Yes, I am one of the first Black curators of the Guggenheim.
Yes, I am the first Black, solo curator of an exhibition at the Guggenheim.
And yes, I am the first Black woman to curate an exhibition at the Guggenheim.
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Sesame Street is a historically Black neighborhood, prove me wrong
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another Black 2020 hire. I hope someone does an extended study on the great hiring backlash of those hires during the years 2022-2024.
J.D. Dillard is no longer directing his ‘STAR WARS’ film — “It was not for lack of trying.”
(Source: )
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This is the same museum that made up an IMAGINARY designation of "first solo Black curator" b/c they were too afraid to admit that they had not hired a Black curator to lead a show in 80 years and erased me and history in the process.
They are full of shit.
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Y’all are not looking at this correctly:
Courtney Love is the White woman’s Azealia Banks and married White people’s Jimi Hendrix, she is a Cancer and have you seen her crash Madonna’s VMA interview? Lol she is going to do what she wants to, 100 proof!
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We literally have public libraries in this country b/c of Carnegie. I cannot imagine any of the current class with enough whatever to fund something like this today
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Her: "I know I get really angry --"
Him: "No, you blackout. And you won't go to therapy and I can't live like this forever."
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A TALL MAN IN A PROBSVLY BESPOKEN TWEED COST TOLD A WOC IN NYC THAT HE "WANTS TO LOVE HER"
THIS CAN'T BE REAL I'M ABOUT TO PASS OUT I'M CLEARLY HALLUCINATING
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I did not expect this. Wow. I thought this might be a break up scene on the MTA.
I hope that for once, love wins with them wherever they are
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Please never describe me as a woman of color. I am a Black woman.
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Him: "Never in life have I ever wanted to go see the ballet that bad. I wanted to make you happy. I don't know [NN] but ever since I've met you I just want to make you happy. If I could go inside of you and put a bandaid where you're hurt I would."
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A Black woman did this. She did Basquiat justice. Michael Stewart justice. Discovered art history. Was the first Black curator to curate a show at one of the most racist museums in the country. With one hand tied behind her back. And she still killed it.
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And THEN, they asked another Black woman to be complicit in the harm of erasure?
No. Not today.
Air them out beloveds.
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Respectfully, “ima keep it two Virgils” is still in the lexicon
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THEY'RE GONE. HE'S CARRYING THE GROCERIES AND HER ARM IS AROUND HER WAIST
AND I'M STILL SINGLE, DIRTY SND LISTENING TO CAM'RON FROM THIS MAN'S RED PORTABLE SPEAKER SET
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I have a thread to share about unethical journalism and the bias and racism that has obfuscated the story of my scholarship and its political legacy. It is the larger story of how
@TheAtlantic
& other publications have failed the American public then & continue to do so. Pls RT.
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If you were born between 1969-1994 you pretty much raised yourself, hats off TO YOU
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Thrilled to confirm: I am the curator of a Basquiat exhibition at the Guggenheim next year. It opens June 21, 2019. I hope that if you are in NYC, that you'll come and see this very important painting.
Remembering Jean-Michel
#Basquiat
, born on this day in 1960. In 2019, the Guggenheim presents "Basquiat’s 'Defacement': The Untold Story," which examines identity, cultural activism, and racial tension in 1980s New York.
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I'm very curious what striking employees of the NYT intend to do about the constant and consistent misinformation & underreporting that their paper publishes, and we hear not a peep. The paper is out of touch & actively harmful, and not one word of collective dissent about this.
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There’s more than enough money. But I can imagine the soulless, Scandinavian coffee shop aesthetic that would be put upon us with an obscene list of controls and conditions that it’s almost like why bother
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I can honestly say the hardest lesson for me moving into my own power is to see how badly the world wants you as a woman, esp a young Black woman, to accept accept accept CRUMBS and be grateful for them. And truly enjoy it.
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Her: "When I scream at you I am so ashamed of myself. I don't know if there isn't a night that I get out of bed and cry and just hate myself."
Him: "I feel helpless because I don't want to be screamed at and I feel like I can't help you and I just have to experience it."
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Question: have you ever checked into or lived in a hotel to fall apart? Absolutely no judgment
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Her: "Therapy just makes me feel like I'm failing all of the time and you don't...I know I don't communicate my feelings...I didn't grow up with that and I had to teach myself. I know I go off, believe me. I just... what if therapy won't work for me? What if i'm just angry."
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Her: "Don't tell your mom she already thinks I'm crazy"
Him: She does but she likes you and she told me to not bring anyone home that I'm not marrying so I gotta make "you" work...did you get the umbrella?"
THEY'RE LEAVING US
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If you did quarantine without a car or dishwasher, you deserve a different kind of intensive therapy
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Him: "I can deal with the occasional screaming if you're unlearning and you're trying to be better. I know you're not going to change overnight."
Her: "Why are you even still with me?"
He's going into his wallet omgosh what's happening
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Him: "You remember this?"
Her: "I can't believe you still have that [laughs], that's crazy"
Him: "I don't really give a shit about the ballet but you did and you wanted to see Misty Copeland and you you were sooo into it and even b/c you did I wanted to go.
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They’re not funding art, they’re not patrons, they’re building foundations to house their collections, the Loch brothers definitely have decimated the campaign system, they buy this site and crypto, like —
What do you think will happen when the ppl have no bread and no art?
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@GlynnMacN
gave me her tickets she couldn’t make it, so I got her book and mine since a book came with the talk and I was complaining to her too lololol and she was like, but Toni Morrison signed your book
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Thanks to NYC's shitty infrastructure the bus has stopped multiple times.
THEY HAVE A SEAT NOW IN FRONT OF ME
HE'S CARESSING HER EAR AS SHE'S WIPING HER TEARS
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East Austin is historically a Black neighborhood
A tale of two cities - on the right is downtown Austin - to the left East Austin. Look who has power.
@KVUE
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Him: "I just want you to be happy and to be with me and have children with me."
She's crying.
Her: "God where are we?"
(The windows are real fogged up from the rain)
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Her: "Maybe we should get out here and get an Uber"
Me, internally: nooooooooooo
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.
@BetoORourke
ran as fair, honest and organized of a race that one can run for the top post in a state that is the crown jewel of the GOP. There is very little Dem/Progressive infrastructure in TX at that level to support a candidates, and it will take time.
He did very well.
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Him: "He says we're close. We'll just get off at the next stop"
Her: "Okay. Let's order thai."
Him: "Sure. But I want to talk about this because by the end of the week I need you to make an appt somewhere. Would it help if I went with you?"
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The way Black women lined up to carry this water has to be studied
Barnard College admin, including Sarah Gillman (VP for Strategic Finance Operations) repeat Columbia’s threats of suspension and are turned away
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And normally I wouldn't but I didn't live tweet mtg Tanqueray last week on the bus (ALL OF THE GOOD ENCOUNTERS ARE ON THE BUS PPL) and I said if I got another good one I wouldn't let it pass me by...
THIS WAS GOOD
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Aging is a GIFT
I worked so hard to be able to age. I am going to celebrate every single birthday like it's my last.
I can't believe I made it!
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Big sisters need their own support groups, retirement plans, appreciation days, specialized therapy and this one needs a development deal ❤️
This is literally a coming of age movie 😭
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Black women are expected to endure, endure, endure.
I am for one, reclaiming my time.
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If Ronan Farrow start digging through your crates, your time is nigh
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I remember this, I believe the performance piece was "Carry That Weight". I saw her once on the subway, and people helped her carry it up the stairs.
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Is the Library of Congress archiving this Black Twitter Teddy Riley roast??
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Texas is actually a Blue state struggling to break free of Republican tyranny and voter suppression
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Let’s say they reeaaalllyyy don’t give a fuck about public works. Disgusting, but the lived truth.
Where does the good sense and if not that, self preservation kick in? Because history has shown us…how this will go….
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Her: " I don't know. I think so? I don't know where to look I mean that's the thing no one can find a good therapist in NY."
Him: I'll ask my mom if she has any recommendations I mean she has to right?
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Him: "Do you want to do that? We can get off here."
Driver is driving man goes up to the driver
Noooo don't leave me/Twitter!!!
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I'll never forget a woman once told me, "a woman really begins to step into her power between 35-40." I believe it to be true.
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The panel was merely a public culmination of Nancy constantly attempting to erase me from my work and punish me for not handing over my work & agency. And the museum's leadership just watched.
Nancy Spector is the Amy Cooper of the Guggenheim and I stand by that statement.
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I'm a Texan and I've been in many iterations a journalist, a writer, an organizer (more on that later), a bartender, etc.
I'm also a scholar of Jean-Michel Basquiat's work & Keith Haring's. I started at 18, and at 34, I am one of the leading scholars of those artists in my gen.
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I was listening to Nirvana Unplugged today and I remember this was the height of cool at one point, across races.
As a Millennial, it was Gen X that taught us so much about cool. And Gen X gave so much. When and why did it become cool to hate on one of the coolest gens??
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every day, he log in, to fight with poor people -- and he cares what they think
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I just ask that when you tell the story that you remember I am still finding my words to fully say my piece.
And I through all of this, put on an amazing show & made history baby. Pls do not let that be lost & defined by what they tried to do to me & my darling show.
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And I will never ever regret it. Of course I have fears, but I know that I did an amazing and historic and game-changing show. And I'm talented as fuck. And I have faith in things unseen and unknown. My faith has always been bigger than my fear -- b/c it has to be.
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It’s unfathomable the way this country decimated an entire generation of Black men over weed.
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And this is a bittersweet statement to make b/c there are a lot of wonderful people there that deserve more. They know that this chapter of the Basquiat exhibition and the aftermath hangs an ugly shadow over the Guggenheim in ways the leadership does not yet understand.
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I see a lot of conversations about Juneteenth, but very few that center African-Americans from Texas nor centering the holiday in the specific cruelty of Texas racism. The same thing is happening w/conversations about Black Wall Street in Tulsa.
Specificity matters.
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I I did not sign over my copyright (this is important). One, I funded my work independently for years & two, I do not believe in handing over that kind of power to ppl w/no experience in it.There were signs throughout the show that Nancy Spector was trying to co-opt my work.
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we wait until people are broken or dead before we see their fragility and humanity and need to be protected. We learn nothing. We want everything. We give nothing.
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This is one of the most infamous towns in Texas; famous for lynchings and being a sun down town. This is not a place you want to be caught in after night fall. I can't even believe what I'm seeing.
Hundreds are gathered in Vidor, Texas for a rally after the death of George Floyd. The organizer is calling on the community to unite and support Black people.
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We are an empire in collapse and we don’t even get good art
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i told you -- Elon bought Grey Gardens, and the feral raccoons are the groundskeepers! they're the ones in charge! he just paying the taxes!
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Ppl have wondered why the show didn't get the press commiserate w/its popularity or why ppl didn't know I was Black (I've gotten that a few times.)
It was b/c the Guggenheim's Press Office turned press away & told them I was unavailable -- this was not true.
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It has not been easy being blamed for what you've experienced, what no one should experience and then being ostracized by ppl in your field as though you did something wrong. I will never EVER forget those that left me for dead. I got your number, bitch(es).
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When you tell ppl they don’t need an education in the humanities, this happens
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I came back to say:
y’all expect so little from your idols.
As someone descended from actual Black cowboys that helped develop the Chisholm Trail — they never carried flags on the trail(s).
I also know WAY too much about the moral issues around some of their art buying
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Some of your ancestors were not royalty but instead bootleggers, gin runners, herbalists, abortion providers, special brownie bakers out of the kitchen to pay for school uniforms and you goddamn hall monitors are EMBARRASSING them w/ these “these are the rules” takes
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I was met w/constant retaliation for essentially refusing to give up ownership of my work. In a mtg when I said that I did not want to publicly release certain interview tapes, Spector said, "this is a work for hire", forgetting I owned my copyright. She was later incensed.
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All of the interviews that you see about the show -- I organized myself & ppl can confirm that. I knew I was being sabotaged, but I had to push through it & do my best to give the show whatever I could, including being my own PR.
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I think ppl are so triggered by watching the video because nearly everyone that's non-White, queer or a divested White women has experienced the violence of an Amy Cooper at home, on the job, in friendships, at school -- and there's no escaping them.
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