PC Williams on Costume Designing ‘We Are Lady Parts’ Season 2

We speak with the costume designer of of We Are Lady Parts and frequent collaborator with Nida Manzoor, PC Williams!

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Nida Manzoor on ‘We Are Lady Parts’ Season 2 and the Role of the Artist

We speak once again with the brilliant creator of We Are Lady Parts, Nida Manzoor!

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The Middle Geeks Episode 66: ‘We Are Lady Parts’ Season 2 Review

Isa joins us once again to review the second season of Nida Manzoor’s masterpiece Peacock series, We Are Lady Parts!

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‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Explores Geopolitics and Shows the MCU Can Go Further

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is, at its core, a moving drama about the grief of a nation for their lost King T’Challa and the grief of his closes loved ones. But the film also takes a deeper dive into the geopolitics of the MCU, and really our own world and how the legacy of colonialism, European slavery of Africans, Indigenous genocide, and the pillaging of resources of Black and brown countries continues to this day.

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‘Yasuke’ is a Beautiful and Bloody Love Letter to the First Black Samurai

Yasuke. A real life folktale. Not so much in the sense that he never existed. It’s more like there isn’t much known about his mysterious life, aside from how challenging it must have been.

All that’s known about history’s first Black samurai is that he was likely born around 1540 in Africa, around the Mozambique area. At some point in his life he came in contact with Oda Nobunaga, a feudal lord of Japan, and became a member of his samurai guard.

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