#Laetitia Ky

[thevoyagein]

"Imagine living in a world where violence against women is encouraged, cheered, but women who are concerned about this behavior are accused of hate speech, demonized, and silenced… and everyone keep their mouth closed because they don't give a f or because their bag will be affected. But at the same time we claim to be feminist… everything is fine. But know that everyday our silence has consequences."

[doomdaysdecays]

laetitia ky & queen esie ♥ ♀️ ♥

[henk-heijmans]

Ivorian model poses with a handbag, 2020 - by Laetitia Ky (1996), Ivorian

[ghost-37]

[friendsofmedusa]

TRAs having a normal one in Laetitia Ky's DMs as usual.

These people are insane.

[batmanbeyondrocks]

Traditional Hairstyles From African Tribes

Credit: KY@laetitiaky via Dark Skin Women@darkskinwomen

[femgoddess-hecate]

I can't wait till Laetitia Ky's newest insta post makes it to tumblr omfg she's so funny.

And the girlies in her comments are having none of the tra bullshit.

My fave comment was in response to some white male on her page. "Typical white male. The only thing you know about female oppression is perpetuating it"

Lmaoooooo I love to see it

[p0pipos]

in love with her sass

[radfishbucket]

Anyways back to my favourite comment ever when a she/they woman argued that pregnancy is not unique to womanhood as men can also sustain life when they’re host to a parasite or when they’re attacked by a leech. Also producing sperm is the same as pregnancy

[genevieveetguy]

Disco Boy, Giacomo Abbruzzese (2023)

[soli-terri]

Roi d’Hommes (King of Men)

By Laetitia Ky

@laetitiaky on Instagram

Traditional art

[thevoyagein]

They do have plans to meet!

[sloshed-cinema]

Disco Boy (2023)

What a terrible path to citizenship. After breaking away from their football club during a trip into Poland, Aleksei and his friend Mikhail plan to travel to Paris to find a new life. Unfortunately for Mikhail, the journey is a fatal one, as he is struck and killed by a police boat while the pair cross a river. Alone, Aleksei joins the French Foreign Legion in order to secure eventual citizenship. On another river in another continent, Jomo and fellow freedom fighters in the Movement for the Empancipation of the Niger Delta resist the effects of colonialist and government-backed oil drilling which leaves the local people with a polluted river and ever diminishing farmland. The future is bleak for both of these young men. Fate forces the two together after Aleksei is deployed to enforce French interests by recovering French hostages captured by MEND. Jomo and Aleksei fight in a skirmish, and Jomo is eventually killed by the Belarusian. This trauma leaves Aleksei feeling bereft and vacant, especially after he finds Jomo’s sister Udoka, now living illegally as well in Paris, in a nightclub. The cruelty and callous nature of this means of gaining citizenship, giving dangerous and dirty jobs to foreigners as a way to carrot-and-stick them to the passport they so desire, smacks of indifference toward the lives of others. Citizenship is earned in the spilled blood of others in the name of the French Republic.

Especially in its final nocturnal Parisian act, Giacomo Abbruzzese’s film vocabulary takes on a neon-soaked hallucinatory feel as Aleksei loses himself first to dance and then to grief. The pivotal skirmish is filmed in infrared thermal imaging, the two men just body heat struggling for survival. This returns in the closing moments after a sort of transference has happened between Jomo, Aleksei, and Udoka. After meeting her in her apartment, Aleksei takes on one of Jomo and her’s defining features, a striking single brown eye. In a way, he has taken on Jomo’s spirit, and the two finally get to enact his desire to be a dancer in a nightclub.

Featured throughout is a throbbing, bassy, nocturnal house score by Vitalic. It’s really striking work, suffusing the film with passion and danger.

THE RULES

SIP

The film switches from one storyline to the other.

Someone name-drops the French Foreign Legion.

The score kicks in

BIG DRINK

A country or nationality is named.

[the-land-of-women]

[artefavoriteado]

Roi d'Hommes by Laetitia Ky

[homosexuhauls]