Why I watched the Poppie Nongena film despite my disdain for the industry’s repetitive and lazy portrayals of black women
I attended the premier of the Poppie Nongena film at a time when I had just bemoaned Tyler Perry’s continuous ‘battered black woman’ narratives that characterise almost his entire filmography.
And I’m not the only one – there’s collective fatigue not only over the Tyler Perry conversation, but from stories centered around black pain. A lot of people are now opting to no longer watch films or series where the protagonist – whether black or a woman or both – is a fictional character created for the sole purpose of suffering.
We not only want to see different portrayals of black women, but we are also weary of having this diet of black pain fed to us so much that we become desensitised to the realities around us.
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