When I Was a Teenager, I told my Teachers that my High School would close because of Poor Management
Only in retrospect, as an adult, did I realize she was probably lying and somehow knew this psychology would work on me. She tricked me.
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Everything Is a Trade Agreement
A film made in Los Angeles has access to distribution networks, financing structures, and platform relationships that a film made in Dakar, Bridgetown, or Luanda simply does not. This is not because the American film is better. The variable is infrastructure.
The Ones Who Made It Anyway
A reflection on artists, writers, and filmmakers who created outside the mainstream—and what it cost to have their work seen across borders.
The Story You Grow Up Inside
A reflection on how the stories we consume as children shape identity, belonging, and the limits of what we believe is possible.
The Oath and the Open Door
Joy opens with a ritual. A chicken, blood, a young woman swearing an oath before she crosses the water. I kept asking: is it the belief that traps her, or the circumstances?