Paris is Burning is of a culture of the ball culture in New York City. This is an African-American, Latino, gay and transgender community that works together to provide a culture of difference in there society. This documentary was filmed toward the end of the golden age and expressed race, class, gender, and a person's sexuality.
For these people in New York City they feel stronger walking down a runway. They feel proud of who they are and what they do. People who attend these balls also feel confident in them self. In order to rule a ball you need to be confident and proud of who you are in order to rule and become a mother of the ball or house. Someone needs to go above and beyond there own goals to win a ball and be awarded a trophy.
Also when in this community find your place where you fit in and you will feel good about yourself. If you do not do this you will be tossed aside and be unexpected into the community. Children in this community steal stuff to go to a ball just for one night. Some of these children do not have parents or family's they either live in shelters or on the streets or with friends. These children barely eat, they do not have money for food or clothes. In the end they feel better about themselves and they are noticed and excepted on the runways.
Some enjoy the satisfaction of the joy and fun that is on the runway. Some enjoy the fame and the physical high. A saying is in my own words more balls less drugs would equal a better world and that this would not hurt you to do.
Time changes things. But does not change everything. Blacks and gays have a hard time going places. Also, whites have more power. Parents can not except there child for who they are or who they would like to be. A parent could be against people being gay or bi, and transsexual. this could lead to horrible things like a parent giving up on there child and not caring about them or for them.
Some children can decide to be transsexual at a young age, resulting in broken homes, no parents and sadness, or they could already come from this. In the balls groups become family and friends.
Om the streets you think of a fight to be to the death or with knifes and guns, but at a ball fights are done by the walk you do to win a trophy. This is called voguing and this art form is hopefully going to be speed around the world. These people also say that if they were rich, they would spreed the wealth and not claim it all to them self's out of greed.
These people are the minority but pictured as the rich powerful white person. Things are taken but not given and this is way of life for the past 400 years. You pay for the label in stores, these people gain the wealth. People used to create there own style not anymore. The reason why not everyone can afford it, but people have dreams but they are hard to get or to earn. This art form has raised money for AIDS and homeless. In this world you can not always trust people because you can end up dead.
In this world we need love for one another, support, and to help each other out. People need to care and be real to yourself and to others do not hide yourself.
In New York people want these different people dead or they would like to hurt them or see them put into jail. Life is a fight, it is hard and trans-gendered people are a main target. Murder happens all the time because of hate.
"Yelling out from their graves for justice."
I am for this, it is positive and creative.
Kozol: It relates to this because of culture and race and wealth. People both in Kozol and Paris is Burning have mix culture and race and are poor no one is rich. children are hungry people on the streets, lack of family. Both happen in New York.
Johnson: This relates to sexual orientation and how people react to people who are not straight. Gay people and so on are treated differently because they are different then others, but they are not treated fairly and sometime robbed and hurt sometime murdered in the streets.
Delpit: "Children have the right to their own language, their own culture." Children can make there own language and there own culture though who they are as a person. Each person is there own art form and expresses this in there own way.
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The videos added at the end put everything you said into context. You can see that confidence, and fair conversations are had in those communities.
ReplyDeleteI love the connection you made between going to a ball and taking on life. It is true that you must be confident and go above and beyond to be awarded in most cases.
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