“And I think when you have suicide rates going up, when you have the bullying, when you have maybe even the drug usage because people are not feeling comfortable being their unique selves, because of the
societal norms and the pressures of conforming or because they feel like they have to erase parts of them because they’re not socially accepted, I felt like through my truth it could help other people walk in their truth and breathe a little easier.”
Janelle monae is releasing a 50min sci-fi film with dirty computer, which is about a character who is on the run from an authoritarian
government in a dystopian future to avoid the erasure of her memory, she searches for her love interest played by (tessa thompson) and each
music video in the film represents one of the missing
memories.
apparently the movie is about a subversive group of black, brown and
queer people (set in a future closer than cindy mayweather’s), who are labeled as “deviants” and have their
memories forcefully erased. you can read about it here
