honestly? hot take but the whole “make gay movies with happy endings!/no gay movies about the struggle of forbidden love!” thing doesn’t do it for me and i wish the rallying cry was for gay and lesbian movies made by gays and lesbians and/or starring gays and lesbians because that is 3000000x more likely to result in a movie that resonates and is beneficial and empowering. like “moonlight” isn’t a cakewalk emotionally but the reason it works is because the story was written and handled by the folks for whom it was important. idk that’s just my onion i actually like gay/lesbian movies that involve some kind of pain or struggle just fine because movies that are dramatic are interesting it’s how that’s handled and by whom that decides whether it feels exploitative or not. and i betcha that sometime maybe liiike 5 or 10 years down the line we’re gonna start seeing “happy” gay cinema made by straight people that will feel just as empty and soulless as the tragedy porn that’s been the norm so far.
“My grandmother wove in me a tapestry that was impossible to unwind,” Vigo said. “Since then, I’ve dedicated my life to the sea, just as those who have come before me.”
Like the 23 women before her, Vigo has never made a penny from her work. She is bound by a sacred ‘Sea Oath’ that maintains that byssus should never be bought or sold.
Instead, Vigo explained that the only way to receive byssus is as a gift. […]
“Byssus doesn’t belong to me, but to everyone,” Vigo asserted. “Selling it would be like trying to profit from the sun or the tides.”
More recently, a Japanese businessman approached Vigo with an offer to purchase her most famous piece, ‘The Lion of Women’, for €2.5 million. It took Vigo four years to stitch the glimmering 45x45cm design with her fingernails, and she dedicated it to women everywhere.
“I told him, ‘Absolutely not’,” she declared. “The women of the world are not for sale.”
The government is trying to evict her after shutting down her free museum to showcase her work because she refuses their demands she tell her secret.
She needs to raise €85,000 by November 2018 or the town will evict her. She’s only raised €6,472. The page says that there is no goal bc anything they raise is a success but the article says she needs the €85,000 in order to own her home and not be evicted. Chiara Vigo is an amazingly talented Jewish women who deserves to stay in her town close to the ocean !!
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