Netflix’s “docudrama” Queen Cleopatra launched two weeks ago and now looks to have earned the unenviable plaudit of drawing the worst audience score in TV history.
She needed to be a gay dwarf to make it work.
Or maybe audiences just don’t like being force fed woke lectures.
Students at the University of Florida are being invited to study horror in literature and film through a racial lens, with the professor asking how works such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein are about ‘racial identity and oppression’.
The course is provided as part of the African American Studies program.
Entitled ‘Black Horror, White Terror’, it is taught by Professor Julia Mollenthiel, whose dissertation was on the same theme. Mollenthiel is also writing a book on the subject.
People falsely claiming Indigenous identity for opportunistic reasons is nothing new but the rise in this behaviour, or perhaps the rise in people being discovered, is disturbing.
We remember Grey Owl, the British writer, trapper and conservationist who pretended to be Indigenous after landing in Canada — a fabrication that wasn’t exposed until after his death in 1938.
A professor of environmental science specializing in Native American environmental health apologized this week for “incorrectly identifying” as Native American for years, joining a list of white women who have feigned membership in a different racial or ethnic group.
The fringe trend has, in some cases, appeared to attempt to take advantage of affirmative action, while others have used their adopted ethnicity to achieve certain social statuses.
I’m starting to suspect there are more fake Indians teaching at colleges than actual American Indians. And I don’t just mean Elizabeth Warren. Here’s another Elizabeth who shares Warren’s ancestry from the fabled Fakeaho people who roamed the plains and hallways of the Ivy League and hunted jackalopes in Atlantis.
There seems little real shame in this one.
Egypt has slammed Netflix for presenting Cleopatra as black in its new docudrama – accusing the streaming giant of ‘falsifying Egyptian history’.
Netflix had been accused of ‘blackwashing’ history by casting the black actress as the pharaoh in the new series about the Macedonian-Greek ruler.
African Queens: Queen Cleopatra stars 37-year-old English actress Adele James as the titular character.
A Netflix docudrama series that depicts Queen Cleopatra VII as a black African has sparked controversy in Egypt.
A lawyer has filed a complaint that accuses African Queens: Queen Cleopatra of violating media laws and aiming to “erase the Egyptian identity”.
A top archaeologist insisted Cleopatra was “light-skinned, not black”.
I hope Cleo is a Dwarf who hooks up with a racialized Gay Elf and goes on a Ring quest, that would be a great show.
Kitty Noah sits barefoot on her son Noah Noah’s couch in Iqaluit, sipping a hot cup of coffee.
Occasionally, the 62-year-old blurts out “aakuluk” to her family, who repeat the Inuktitut term of endearment back to her.
“I love her a lot,” says her son, Samuel Hughes, Kitty’s caregiver.
When Hughes heard that his mother was the victim of an alleged lie to gain Inuit identity for a pair of Ontario twins they had never met, he said he was surprised and upset.
I hope we can deport them.
‘I remember my grandmother saying to me: I don’t care what they tell you in school, Cleopatra was black.’ So asserts a trailer for a new Netflix ‘docuseries’ looking at the lives of powerful women in history. Alas for the speaker, an American of African descent, her grandmother’s idea of historical truth was highly subjective. It was built on an absurd generalisation about all Africans being black, and the regrettable assumption that skin colour is an important criterion for judging people’s merits. No one denies the awful legacy of slavery among African Americans, and the wish to find female African heroines is understandable – but it is also vital to get the facts right.
Well I hope she turns out to be a Gay dwarf too.
Why is anyone shocked that authors reflect their times?
The republic of letters has been providing the world with some characteristic examples of courage in recent years. In 2020, we had the sight of junior staffers staging a walkout over the plan of their employer, Hachette, to publish a memoir by Woody Allen. The book was duly canceled, because what major publisher would ever want to go against the whims of a few twentysomething graduates in their first job?
A documentary on the life and tumultuous times of Queen Cleopatra is on the horizon for Netflix with the planned docuseries veering from accepted historical wisdom by changing the subject’s ethnicity. The documentary appears to propose the case Cleopatra was a black woman with several of the commentators featured in the film arguing Cleopatra could potentially be of African descent instead of Greek.
In a first of its kind announcement, the Inuk status of two sisters is being investigated after claims their Inuit heritage was falsified.
Amira and Nadya Gill are twin sisters who hold status as Inuk. How they got that status is now being investigated for potential fraud by Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI), the organization that oversees Indigenous status under the Nunavut Agreement.
Can we kick these pigs and their whole family back to Buttfuckistan?
Indigenous people have been raising alarm bells over Amira and Nadya Gill’s claims of Inuit ancestry for years.
Instagram accounts like inuk.barbie and raceshifters have made detailed posts on the issue.
They first made headlines for their business Kanata Trade Co. which was created to give back to Indspire — a registered charity that invests in Indigenous education.
Diversity something something …
Memorial University of Newfoundland’s governing body has removed president and vice-chancellor Vianne Timmons from her position.
The move comes after Timmons announced on March 13 she was taking a voluntary, six-week paid leave of absence from the president’s office amid public scrutiny following a CBC News investigation into her statements on her Indigenous ancestry and past membership in an unrecognized Mi’kmaw First Nation group.
Hidden in a larger piece about the faltering Amazon Studios is the not-so-surprising confirmation that the insufferably woke (and boring) Rings of Power lost 63 percent of its audience.
If you recall, Rings of Power is the widely derided and loathed Lord of the Rings prequel launched last September. Amazon has committed a billion—with a “B”— dollars to the project, which includes a commitment for a five-season run.
Rings was an act of cultural vandalism. Racialized dwarves and gay elves were not asked for by anyone ever. I fear season 2 will be all Drag Elf Storytime all the time.
