In this alternate reality, “Where are my lesbians?!” is an appropriately anguished battle cry. With each list of the same five to ten films papering over our history, I feel like I’m living in a barren timeline utterly divorced from the world of weird and wonderful lesbian film that already exists. If you believed all the Oscar season thinkpieces, you would imagine that Carol, Ammonite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, World to Come, The Favourite, Wild Nights with Emily, Vita and Virginia and Colette are all we have. And when focusing on more recent offerings, there’s a general malaise over the prominence of a certain white, outmoded genre.
Over the past few years especially, mainstream critical conversations around lesbian themes paint a generalized, dreary canon devoid of competent, queer-eyed directors within reach of even a lesbian pulp adaptation-up until a certain blonde in a fur coat circa 2015. #strongertogether #alllove.For psychically toxic reasons, the history of queer women’s cinema is periodically undercut.
My mission is to continue to work as hard as I can to empower women and make them laugh and feel better and I won’t let anything stop me. “You have every right to feel however you feel about the video and me but I want you to know I’m not going anywhere,” she concluded. The Expecting Amy personality even went so far as to claim she “had Beyoncé and Jay Z’s approval,” which is why the video was released on Tidal. If you watched it and it made you feel anything other than good, please know that was not my intention.” I loved every second of working with those women to make this thing that lifted us up. I make fun of myself a few times in the video as I do in everything I am a part of. The video Beyoncé made was so moving and I wouldn’t ever make fun of that. “It was just us women celebrating each other. “It was NEVER a parody,” she argued in a blog post at the time, apologizing amid the controversy.
Schumer’s interpretation of the song’s message didn’t go over well with fans. She faced backlash in late 2016 for putting her own spin on Beyoncé‘s “Formation” video, which was applauded for centering Black women and championing female empowerment. It was far from the first time Schumer was criticized for her questionable takes on race. One month later, however, she issued a more formal apology for her insensitive material, vowing to take “responsibility” in the future. Schumer requested that critics “put down torches,” claiming that she simply puts other people’s perspectives on race under a microscope in her work. … You can call it a ‘blind spot for racism’ or ‘lazy,’ but you are wrong. I enjoy playing the girl who time to time says the dumbest thing possible, and playing with race is a thing we are not supposed to do, which is what makes it so fun for comics. That includes making dumb jokes involving race. The Snatched star continued, “I go in and out of playing an irreverent idiot. I will joke about things you like, and I will joke about things you arent comfortable with. “I am so glad more people are laughing at me and with me all of a sudden.
After she was called out in an article published by The Guardian for allegedly having a “shockingly large blind spot around race” in her stand-up, the Inside Amy Schumer alum fought back in a lengthy series of tweets.
Amy Schumer has made a career out of pushing boundaries - but sometimes the comedian has taken things too far.įans have questioned the Life & Beth star several times over the years, even as far back as 2015.