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BlackAutMedia (He/His)

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Black, autistic, funny third thing. I make Video essays about race, disability, and queerness on Youtube. https://t.co/iEp1RnAClJ

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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · Sep 4

Not feeling too well but I wanted to showcase some preview of "the Portrayal of torture in media."

It'll talk about a lot of things from bloodbending to the war on terror to propaganda techniques used by Israel's government. You can read the preview outline here:

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Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your people.

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Retronauts @retronauts.bsky.social · 11h

according to a notice on his Facebook page, Tomonobu Itagaki has passed away at the age of 58. No details were shared, but the statement expressed his misgivings about “failing to produce a new game for the fans”
www.facebook.com/share/p/17am...

Tomonobu Itagaki (from his final Facebook post)

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 23h

60% of youth in custody are diagnosed with ADD or ADHD – compared to just 11% nationally.

Kids need care, not cages.

#ADHDAwarenessMonth

Graph showing the prevalence of diagnoses among youth in confinement: 4% autism spectrum, 27% learning disabilities, 60% ADD or ADHD

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 1d

This is also a disability justice issue.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Report examining the employment history data of more than 3m finance & tech workers at companies that rolled out office mandates found that turnover among women is almost three times as high as that of their male co-workers, and that women are more likely to take a lower position if they leave

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Sarah M. - Blerdy Baddie @killianfantasy.bsky.social · 1d

I just love* how everyone was for masking until it was revealed that Black people were more at risk from Covid then masks became oppression. And now I'm still having to mask to protect my family from all these filthy people.

*I don't, in fact, love it.

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failnaut @failnaut.bsky.social · 1d

really sick of the dem refrain "kidnapping legal citizens" as though it's fine if it's anyone else, genuinely what the fuck is wrong with you

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Millie Fangs (Commission Me!) @milliefangs.com · 4d

He's about to go flying. #Tails #Sonic #Sketch

Tails from 'Sonic The Hedgehog' wearing a B3 bomber jacker in front of a cloudy sky.

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Henny Gesserit @nmjmredux.blacksky.app · 8d

This is only 12 miles from where my family lives. When you use AI in any form, people are affected directly

Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 9d

- put down the damn AI.

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Eva the Leftist Demon @ Birthday @shinyevonee.blacksky.app · Mar 26

Hi y'all, the engagement for my original mutual aid post went poof so I made a new one. I have to pay off old credit card debt through a collector or else I will get sued. Please donate through one of the links below and/or boost!
#mutualaid
gofund.me/ba02ca15
ko-fi.com/evonee
paypal.me/EvaWoolridge

Donate to Support Eva in Clearing Predatory Debt, organized by Eva Woolridge

Hello, my name is Eva Woolridge and am dealing with a hard time that I want to mo… Eva Woolridge needs your support for Support Eva in Clearing Predatory Debt

gofund.me

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 10d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · 15d

Ali is always both a delight and an insight to listen to. I haven't had a chance to watch yet but I still wanted to spotlight this.

Little Shop of Ali @lilshopofali.bsky.social · 16d

My video about The Biggest Loser and diet culture is finally done! Here you go
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQrj...

Diet Culture, The Biggest Loser, and The Unbearable Obsession with Thinness

YouTube video by Little Shop of Ali

www.youtube.com

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silverspookgames.bsky.social @silverspookgames.bsky.social · 16d

Reviews like this make the blood, sweat and tears working on this adventure game while being an underpaid social worker in the US ghetto worth it. And yeah, let's make cyberpunk PUNK again! store.steampowered.com/app/673850/ #cyberpunk #indiegame #indiedev #SteamDeals

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 20d

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at blinkingguy.com

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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · 20d

A copy of Assata Shakur's autobiography. #RestInPower

archive.org/details/assa...

Assata (Shakur), An Autobiography : Assata Shakur, Angela Y. Davis (Foreword), Lennox S. Hinds (Foreword) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal...

archive.org

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 23d

Bacially almost all the major black and white characters were born out of homages to minstrelsy. I talk about this in my Character Design classes actually

Pixie Thinks🧚🏽‍♀️ @pixiethinkss.bsky.social · 23d

How am I just now learning Mickey Mouse is an homage to blackface 😭😭

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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · 22d

I didn't say only Frontiers Knuckles was an example of the vanishing myth. I said that about the echidna in the franchise and used the Frontiers image where he's literally having a conversation with Sonic about how he's the last of his people.

It's an issue throughout the entire franchise.

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silverspookgames.bsky.social @silverspookgames.bsky.social · 23d

Neofeud 2 is a #cyberpunk game where a social worker for homeless robots, an ex-con & an ex-trillionaire princess fight world-ending post-human CEO / Kings Get Neofeud 1 & help me finish #2 (pictured)! store.steampowered.com/app/673850/N... #gamedev #indiedev #visualnovel #indiegame

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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · 22d

A lot of times with fictional characters the main motivation coding them is more to exoticize them.

As we talk about Knuckles and anti-Black tropes, they go hand in hand with Anti-Indigenous tropes with his character too dating from his creation to the present day in the films.

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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · 22d

Also want to qualify: my sources come from several different Indigenous peoples. This is not to imply that they are interchangeable but alluding to a shared problem in depiction.

Knuckles is likely inspired from the Maya people considering the above source, but there are also several Maya tribes.

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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · 22d

This ends up compounding from the central motivation which was basically using a peoples culture as an aesthetic and not considering the implications behind it. www.sega-dreamcast-info-games-preservation.com/en/sonic-tea...

Sonic Team Road Trip in South America | SEGA Dreamcast Info

Voyage de la Sonic Team en Amérique du Sud pour le repérage de Sonic Adventure sur Dreamcast. Ils étaient émerveillés par la beautés des ruines qu'ils ont visité !

www.sega-dreamcast-info-games-preservation.com

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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · 22d

You can see the princess tropes in works like Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, the Disney portrayal of Pochahontas, and of course in Sonic Adventure, to name a few titles.

the Deku princess speaking with Link in "Legend of Zelda: Majora's mask." In the game, her father angrily has a monkey dropped into boiling water to torture him mistakenly thinking the monkey kidnapped his daughter. She is the voice of the reason who stops her father, who is presented as a vicious monster evocative of cannibal horror films.

The Disney portrayal of the film "Pochahontas" depicting Pochahontas (based on the real person Matoaka, born Amonute) and her father.

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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · 22d

More on the Princess stereotype here:
web.archive.org/web/20231006...

It’s Time To Bust Stereotypes of Native American Women as Princesses and Squaws

Busting myths about Indigenous women.

web.archive.org

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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · 22d

Tikal in Sonic Adventure is the Indigenous princess stereotype in the way she's presented as the more peaceful, reasonable figure in the group standing up to her father who wants to use the emeralds for war and ultimately led to the near extinction of their people.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_...

The Guide
This representation often shows Native characters as subservient companions of, often white, protagonists. Usually these characters, through their wisdom or mysticism, help provide answers or realizations that help move the protagonist’s character forward.
These characters are often one-dimensional.

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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · 22d

There's also a joke in the Knuckles spinoff with a white cop in Wade who meets Knuckles late father with a segment making jokes around the fact that he thinks his name (Pachacamac) is too difficult to pronounce and says other words instead.

"Pachacamac" and "Tikal" aren't made up words.

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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · 22d

This is also why the Sonic films play up Knuckles disconnect and needing to be civilized in the spinoff as him being an alien.

It's also because he's functionally an Afro-Indigenous person who needs to be civilized bc of how primitive & combat focused his culture is portrayed as.

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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · 22d

Quoting "Native Americans on Network TV":

In addition to myth, there are other methods used to elide painful truth and soothe ideological crisis. In a 1987 article, Khatib slash Clark explains a psychological process he calls temporal displacement, which he describes as a defense mechanism that deals with embarrassing, contradictory, or painful information. This "retemporalization" compartmentalizes unwelcome information in another period; in other words, it is buried in the past…it is a way of suggesting that crimes perpetrated against [American Indians] are a thing of the past and that it is too late to do anything about them.

These fictions exist in a sense outside time, creating a world that announces itself as the past, even history, yet operates ideologically to suppress knowledge of both the past and the present.

Most westerns can be approached as fictional texts that strategically rewrite documentary evidence.

Copy of the book "Native Americans on Network TV - Stereotypes, Myths, and 'the good Indian"" by Michael Ray Fitzgerald.

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