Era of Ignition

Ok! I'm feeling both encouraged and depressed!

So - I had no idea who Amber Tamblyn was when I borrowed this, I haven't seen any of her work. The beginning bits on Hilary Clintons campaigns, or her first producing/directorial role did not catch me so well (I'm Canadian, and wasn't that invested) But! Then we got into the #Metoo movement and the anonymous Black woman** in one of the first closed door discussions of industry women who said /paraphrasing/ “well, how are you going to make sure to include black women? Usually we are ignored.”

And then we get fucking intersectional.

Of course reading this 2019 publication during ongoing blacklivesmatters protests just highlights how much of a marathon the work for justice really is.

**Because Tamblyn is very explicit about naming nearly all the people in her text, that the woman is anonymous here feels weird. If it was the speaker's preference I wish Tamblyn had noted that.