What does it mean to be a man in 2018?
Owning your vulnerability and waking up to your responsibility.
Tag: Riz Ahmed
Riz Ahmed giving Edmund’s ‘Stand up for bastards’ speech from King Lear (Act I, Scene II)
“That was my biggest experience going to Merchant Taylors’. Extreme code switching. The most confusing conversation is to have to talk about the colonization of our continents.” We laughed a little at the ridiculousness of sentences like “we colonized us,” or “we took us into slavery.” But then his face turned serious. “That’s what we are. We are the inheritors of the scars of Empire, but also the spoils of Empire. And that kind of inside/outside state is totally ingrained in us. Which is why, at a time like now, where everybody’s being asked to pick a side, everything is binary, it’s a confusing time to be us.”
If you look really closely you can witness Tom hit the five stages of grief with each passing gif.
“What I’ve learned is that there’s scary people everywhere. And also cool people everywhere.”
“What I’ve learned is that there’s scary people everywhere. And also cool people everywhere.”
Rebellions are built on hope 