#isparisburning

[melissamarsofficial]

LE RESERVOIR, PARIS, Tribute message. 🇺🇸~ Le Reservoir is a mythical concert hall in the heart of the historical streets of Paris... I took my baby steps there for my first solo concert on March 9th 2005. I can remember it as if it was yesterday. The pictures help too :p Last Friday, another fire in Paris burnt down the place. Thankfully there was no casualty. IS PARIS BURNING was a well known movie by René Clément, co-written by Francis Ford Coppola among other screenwriters, it is about Paris, and the end of WWII, and it is now a question burning my thoughts... I know that the place will rebuild... and like Notre Dame, maybe it was calling for a new dress... a change... Sending my best thoughts to the Reservoir team and the building inhabitants. 🇫🇷~ Après Notre-Dame… un nouvel incendie emporte un lieu culte où j’ai fait mes premiers pas de live en solo… un certain 9 mars 2005… à Paris, au coeur de la rue de la Forge-Royale, un quartier historique. Heureusement pas de blessés! C’est ce qui compte! PARIS BRÛLE-T-IL est un film classique de René Clément, mais aussi une question qui brûle mes pensées... Je sais que Le Réservoir va se revêtir d’une nouvelle robe royale bientôt... et la musique fera vibrer encore ses murs historiques. J’envoie mes plus belles pensées à l’équipe du Réservoir et aux habitants de l’immeuble 🙏🏻 Photos Tito @tito_photography Pamela Shandel Invitation by @Momo #theartist Concert at Le Réservoir, PARIS March 9th 2005 Musical direction by Christopher Board with a super fun and rock n’ roll band including Yann Péchin :)... Produced by #polydorrecords #universalmusic #France #lereservoir #musichall #salledeconcert #paris #tribute #message #burningthoughts #music #musique #parisbruletil #isparisburning #parisisburning #memories #firstconcert #souvenirs #melissamars #lifeofasinger #flashback (at Le Reservoir) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxaLANAB5Hd/?igshid=1jim3prvpkw2a

[blogtcooper-blog]

The quote that I’m referring to is from Bell Hook in her writing Is Paris Burning about how colonization has made it be the white audience is comfortable with dictating the images of black people and people of color. I find it very interesting that this goes for every racial minority, especially Native Americans. When thinking about it, there is rarely any image that depicts the life of or has a Native American that is after the 1800′s or who do not live on the reservations.

[realisticview-blog]

"Is Paris burning?"

In this brief passage of Paris is burning by Hooks, I have found it to be controversial as it sheds less light on the benefits of cross dressing or self expression but rather more on the cons of trying to take on an image of a white female, another ethnic group. In the film it shows men spending countless hours preparing for the ball to impersonate those who are of higher class or status, suggesting Caucasians. Those who are Caucasian and have seen the documentary have found it to be entertaining according to the passage as it came off as ridiculous on how black gay men have idolized or value materialistic things that have been projected by the media. In the passage Hooks mentions the term "cultural backdrop" which implies these cross dressers have degraded themselves or masculinity by taking an approach that imitates another, losing worthiness.

[kym0103]

"Is Paris Burning?"

"Is Paris Burning?" is Bell Hooks' opinion on the documentary Paris is Burning. She stated that "drag" is defined as "an experience that is seen as burdensome, as retrograde and retrogressive," which is true because men dressed in women's clothing are thought to be inferior in a patriarchal society (Hooks 146). She further explained that "many heterosexual black men in white supremacist patriarchal culture...are compelled to inhabit a sphere of powerlessness, deemed 'feminine,' hence they have perceived themselves as emasculated" (Hooks 147). This proves that not only can dressing one way make someone feel "feminine," race also plays an important role in how an individual feels. Throughout the documentary, audiences can see that these men fantasize about having money and living a comfortable life similar to the white females during that time period, therefore I agree with the author that "what viewers witness is not black men longing to impersonate or even to become like 'real' black women but their obsession with an idealized fetishized vision of femininity that is white" (Hooks 147-148). I also agree with Hooks that Livingston only showed one aspect of these black men's life, which is the desire to look "real" and pass as women. The documentary would have been better if the reality of these men's life were included in the film.