HOME | REAL CHANGENEWSFEATURESOPINIONARTSVENDOR PROFILESARCHIVE The latest news from the Census Bureau that Seattle is the fastest growing big city in the U.S. is bittersweet. It’s sweet because it points out one of the lies “Seattle is Dying” sparked. MAKING BITTER LAKE HOME Piper says the unhoused face criticism from all corners: angry school parents, homeowners, politicians and even “advocacy” groups. He explains that certain groups or organizations might appear through name to be helping, but are actually hurting unhoused people. OFFICERS CHARGED FOR KILLING OF MANUEL ELLIS On May 27, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed felony charges against three Tacoma Police Department officers for the killing of Manuel “Manny” Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man. Christopher Burbank and Matthew Collins face second-degree murder, and Timothy Rankine faces first-degree manslaughter. INTERNATIONAL TEA DAY International Tea Day is this Friday, May 21, and I plan to celebrate. Every morning, I walk to my tea stash in the living room bookshelf and peruse for something to entice my taste buds. Do I want black or green tea? Ooh, what about a nice oolong? Today’s choice is a floral plum rose oolong blend from Miro Tea. Yesterday’s choice was an extra

citrusy earl gray.

LEGISLATORS SET END TO MORATORIUM, WITH 211,000 HOUSEHOLDS In a state that has long favored landlords, the Washington House and Senate passed two major bills this session that would benefit tenants but, in an April 8 House amendment to one of the bills, codified that the state’s eviction morato-rium will end June 30. An April 19 Senatorial motion against the amendment failed, and the Senate approved the amended bill 27-22. EMERALD CITY RESOURCE GUIDE The Emerald City Resource Guide puts the power of change in people’s hands. This portable, pocket-sized guidebook connects people to services like meals, shelters, treatment centers, and more. The guide is distributed through a network of over 200 partners including a peer

network of vendors

MAYORAL CANDIDATES TALK HOMELESSNESS As the filing May 21 filing deadline passed, King County and Seattle voters officially had a long slate of choices for the Aug. 3 primary, in anticipation of the Nov. 2 general election. No race to get there will be more heated than the one following Mayor Jenny Durkan’s

controversial term

‘MASKS? WE DON’T NEED NO MASKS. WE DON’T NEED TO SHOW YOU Here’s something I think is nuts: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that anyone who is fully vaccinated can now safely go maskless just about anywhere, except for in buses, trains and planes. The announcement is said to incentivize people to get

fully vaccinated.

50 TINY HOMES FOR U-DISTRICT 50 tiny homes for U-District. A new tiny house village is expected to open sometime in May 2021 in Seattle’s University District. The village, Rosie’s Tiny House Village, will be at 1000 NE 45th Street and will provide shelter and case management for its occupants. BOOK REVIEW: ‘THE DEFICIT MYTH: MODERN MONETARY THEORY ANDAUTHOR:

MEGAN WILDHOOD

The national debt is either a big scary number you believe is going to burden future generations if we don’t get our spending under control — or you don’t think about it very much. Whatever your personal relationship with the federal government’s ever-increasing debt, that it is ballooning seemingly out of control actually does affect you but not in the way you might think. HOME | REAL CHANGENEWSFEATURESOPINIONARTSVENDOR PROFILESARCHIVE The latest news from the Census Bureau that Seattle is the fastest growing big city in the U.S. is bittersweet. It’s sweet because it points out one of the lies “Seattle is Dying” sparked. MAKING BITTER LAKE HOME Piper says the unhoused face criticism from all corners: angry school parents, homeowners, politicians and even “advocacy” groups. He explains that certain groups or organizations might appear through name to be helping, but are actually hurting unhoused people. OFFICERS CHARGED FOR KILLING OF MANUEL ELLIS On May 27, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed felony charges against three Tacoma Police Department officers for the killing of Manuel “Manny” Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man. Christopher Burbank and Matthew Collins face second-degree murder, and Timothy Rankine faces first-degree manslaughter. INTERNATIONAL TEA DAY International Tea Day is this Friday, May 21, and I plan to celebrate. Every morning, I walk to my tea stash in the living room bookshelf and peruse for something to entice my taste buds. Do I want black or green tea? Ooh, what about a nice oolong? Today’s choice is a floral plum rose oolong blend from Miro Tea. Yesterday’s choice was an extra

citrusy earl gray.

LEGISLATORS SET END TO MORATORIUM, WITH 211,000 HOUSEHOLDS In a state that has long favored landlords, the Washington House and Senate passed two major bills this session that would benefit tenants but, in an April 8 House amendment to one of the bills, codified that the state’s eviction morato-rium will end June 30. An April 19 Senatorial motion against the amendment failed, and the Senate approved the amended bill 27-22. EMERALD CITY RESOURCE GUIDE The Emerald City Resource Guide puts the power of change in people’s hands. This portable, pocket-sized guidebook connects people to services like meals, shelters, treatment centers, and more. The guide is distributed through a network of over 200 partners including a peer

network of vendors

MAYORAL CANDIDATES TALK HOMELESSNESS As the filing May 21 filing deadline passed, King County and Seattle voters officially had a long slate of choices for the Aug. 3 primary, in anticipation of the Nov. 2 general election. No race to get there will be more heated than the one following Mayor Jenny Durkan’s

controversial term

‘MASKS? WE DON’T NEED NO MASKS. WE DON’T NEED TO SHOW YOU Here’s something I think is nuts: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that anyone who is fully vaccinated can now safely go maskless just about anywhere, except for in buses, trains and planes. The announcement is said to incentivize people to get

fully vaccinated.

50 TINY HOMES FOR U-DISTRICT 50 tiny homes for U-District. A new tiny house village is expected to open sometime in May 2021 in Seattle’s University District. The village, Rosie’s Tiny House Village, will be at 1000 NE 45th Street and will provide shelter and case management for its occupants. BOOK REVIEW: ‘THE DEFICIT MYTH: MODERN MONETARY THEORY ANDAUTHOR:

MEGAN WILDHOOD

The national debt is either a big scary number you believe is going to burden future generations if we don’t get our spending under control — or you don’t think about it very much. Whatever your personal relationship with the federal government’s ever-increasing debt, that it is ballooning seemingly out of control actually does affect you but not in the way you might think. AN ODE TO THE EXPANSIVE JOURNEY OF BEING TRANS 1 day ago · “A few years ago, I became a man in the city.” “Future Feeling” by Joss Lake is a science fiction novel following the redemptive journey of a trans man who is guided by a mysterious queer organization called the Rhiz. The book’s title fully encompasses the author’s interpretation of SEATTLEITES CALL FOR EVICTION MORATORIUMS TO BE EXTENDED 1 day ago · Dozens rallied in southeast Seattle’s Othello Park Saturday, June 5, to demand an extension of Washington’s pandemic-related eviction moratorium and the “cancellation” of rent owed. The moratorium expires June 30, which housing-justice advocates at the event expect to intensify Seattle’s REINING IN POLICE FORCE STATEWIDE 1 day ago · A murder trial for Auburn police officer Jeffrey Nelson has been set for Feb. 28. Nelson is charged with second-degree murder and first-degree assault in the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Jesse Sarey. If found guilty on both counts, Nelson could face up to 18 years in prison. Sarey was a son of FEELING TRANS: JOSS LAKE EXPLORES COMMUNITY AND 1 day ago · Joss Lake’s debut novel “Future Feeling” tells the tale of three trans men who are caught up in a digital hex gone wrong. I spoke to the author about imagining a future with trans men at the center and what he hoped to express through this surreal adventure into the multi-dimensional trans experience. FORERUNNERS ON WASHINGTON MOUNTAINSIDES 1 day ago · If you look up at a line of granite rock in Leavenworth or crane your neck at a basalt tower in Vantage, there’s a good chance you will find shiny metal bolts hammered into rock that are used by rock climbers as anchors to climb. Route developers put them

there.

I USUALLY ESCHEW LOTTERIES, BUT I’LL MAKE AN EXCEPTION 1 day ago · The silliest news this week was the news about the U.S. intelligence report regarding Navy pilots’ sighting of UFOs. It seems like this reveal has been hyped for years. We now finally know what the Defense Department knows about the UFOs.

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If you look up at a line of granite rock in Leavenworth or crane your neck at a basalt tower in Vantage, there’s a good chance you will find shiny metal bolts hammered into rock that are used by rock climbers as anchors to climb. Route developers put them there. Many outdoor climbers unknowingly BOOK REVIEW: ‘HOW THE SOUTH WON THE CIVIL WAR’ BY HEATHER Heather Cox Richardson revels in her role as a professor at Boston College. She is a white woman, 58 years of age and a resident with her partner, a lobsterman, in a small fishing village in Maine. A prolific author and essayist, she has written her sixth book, “How the South Won the Civil War.” Therein, she provides a clear analysis of America’s unsettling paradox: Paeans to freedom

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Ainsley joined Real Change as a Justice Leadership Program intern in the summer of 2018. After her year of service, she joined the vendor program as the case manager. Ainsley is passionate about doing her best to ensure vendors have their needs met. In her free time she enjoys hiking, spending time EMERALD CITY RESOURCE GUIDE The Emerald City Resource Guide puts the power of change in people’s hands. This portable, pocket-sized guidebook connects people to services like meals, shelters, treatment centers, and more. The guide is distributed through a network of over 200 partners including a peer

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HOME | REAL CHANGENEWSFEATURESOPINIONARTSVENDOR PROFILESARCHIVE by Samira George | May 26th, 2021. On Tuesday, May 18, the Seattle Finance and Housing Committee continued discussing the $232 million of COVID relief that will soon be available to Seattle. The funds are part of the American Rescue Plan, which is the $1.9 trillion relief bill the U.S. Congress passed at the end of February. FEELING TRANS: JOSS LAKE EXPLORES COMMUNITY AND 13 hours ago · Joss Lake’s debut novel “Future Feeling” tells the tale of three trans men who are caught up in a digital hex gone wrong. I spoke to the author about imagining a future with trans men at the center and what he hoped to express through this surreal adventure into the multi-dimensional trans experience. MAKING BITTER LAKE HOME Shelly Vaughn poses for a photo at Bitter Lake Playfield, where she has lived since July 2020, on May 19, 2021. Vaughn said she feels safe at this encampment compared to the others she has lived in. Vaughn was a victim of domestic abuse and could no longer live with her ex-partner in Texas. Friends in Washington offered her a place to

stay, so

OFFICERS CHARGED FOR KILLING OF MANUEL ELLIS On May 27, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed felony charges against three Tacoma Police Department officers for the killing of Manuel “Manny” Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man. Christopher Burbank and Matthew Collins face second-degree murder, and Timothy Rankine faces first-degree manslaughter. ‘MASKS? WE DON’T NEED NO MASKS. WE DON’T NEED TO SHOW YOU Here’s something I think is nuts: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that anyone who is fully vaccinated can now safely go maskless just about anywhere, except for in buses, trains and planes. The announcement is said to incentivize people to get

fully vaccinated.

LEGISLATORS SET END TO MORATORIUM, WITH 211,000 HOUSEHOLDS In a state that has long favored landlords, the Washington House and Senate passed two major bills this session that would benefit tenants but, in an April 8 House amendment to one of the bills, codified that the state’s eviction morato-rium will end June 30. An April 19 Senatorial motion against the amendment failed, and the Senate approved the amended bill 27-22. PRAYER WALK HONORS THE FAMILIES OF MISSING AND MURDERED Saturday’s prayer walk followed a national week of action from April 29 through May 5, which focused specifically on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirits (MMIWG2S), calling attention to a crisis of gender-based violence suffered by Indigenous community members in the United States. COMMUNITY GROUPS OPPOSE SLATED CHANGE TO DUWAMISH RIVER In late January, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a change to the cleanup plan for the Lower Duwamish River, one of the nation’s most polluted waterways which was declared a Superfund site in 2001. The proposal — which would allow for higher levels of certain pollutants to remain in the river sediment — generated frustration amongst community groups in South Seattle, who BOOK REVIEW: “APOLLO'S ARROW” BY NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS What intrigued me most about Nicholas Christakis’ new book, “Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live,” was its promise to explain the long-term impact of COVID-19 on our lives. For months we’ve learned many details about the virus, but I’d not seen a forecast as to what the next few

years will bring.

REVIEW OF ‘A MODEST PROPOSAL’ BY JONATHAN SWIFT You’ve probably heard of Jonathan Swift, known famously as the author of “Gulliver’s Travels.” That perennially favorite tale is a hilarious saga as the wayward Lemuel Gulliver finds himself a giant in one realm, a minim in another. Elsewhere, the errant traveler encounters hopelessly self-absorbed intellectuals. And he meets the Houyhnhnms, horses that excel homo sapiens in cerebration. HOME | REAL CHANGENEWSFEATURESOPINIONARTSVENDOR PROFILESARCHIVE by Samira George | May 26th, 2021. On Tuesday, May 18, the Seattle Finance and Housing Committee continued discussing the $232 million of COVID relief that will soon be available to Seattle. The funds are part of the American Rescue Plan, which is the $1.9 trillion relief bill the U.S. Congress passed at the end of February. FEELING TRANS: JOSS LAKE EXPLORES COMMUNITY AND 13 hours ago · Joss Lake’s debut novel “Future Feeling” tells the tale of three trans men who are caught up in a digital hex gone wrong. I spoke to the author about imagining a future with trans men at the center and what he hoped to express through this surreal adventure into the multi-dimensional trans experience. MAKING BITTER LAKE HOME Shelly Vaughn poses for a photo at Bitter Lake Playfield, where she has lived since July 2020, on May 19, 2021. Vaughn said she feels safe at this encampment compared to the others she has lived in. Vaughn was a victim of domestic abuse and could no longer live with her ex-partner in Texas. Friends in Washington offered her a place to

stay, so

OFFICERS CHARGED FOR KILLING OF MANUEL ELLIS On May 27, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed felony charges against three Tacoma Police Department officers for the killing of Manuel “Manny” Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man. Christopher Burbank and Matthew Collins face second-degree murder, and Timothy Rankine faces first-degree manslaughter. ‘MASKS? WE DON’T NEED NO MASKS. WE DON’T NEED TO SHOW YOU Here’s something I think is nuts: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that anyone who is fully vaccinated can now safely go maskless just about anywhere, except for in buses, trains and planes. The announcement is said to incentivize people to get

fully vaccinated.

LEGISLATORS SET END TO MORATORIUM, WITH 211,000 HOUSEHOLDS In a state that has long favored landlords, the Washington House and Senate passed two major bills this session that would benefit tenants but, in an April 8 House amendment to one of the bills, codified that the state’s eviction morato-rium will end June 30. An April 19 Senatorial motion against the amendment failed, and the Senate approved the amended bill 27-22. PRAYER WALK HONORS THE FAMILIES OF MISSING AND MURDERED Saturday’s prayer walk followed a national week of action from April 29 through May 5, which focused specifically on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirits (MMIWG2S), calling attention to a crisis of gender-based violence suffered by Indigenous community members in the United States. COMMUNITY GROUPS OPPOSE SLATED CHANGE TO DUWAMISH RIVER In late January, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a change to the cleanup plan for the Lower Duwamish River, one of the nation’s most polluted waterways which was declared a Superfund site in 2001. The proposal — which would allow for higher levels of certain pollutants to remain in the river sediment — generated frustration amongst community groups in South Seattle, who BOOK REVIEW: “APOLLO'S ARROW” BY NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS What intrigued me most about Nicholas Christakis’ new book, “Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live,” was its promise to explain the long-term impact of COVID-19 on our lives. For months we’ve learned many details about the virus, but I’d not seen a forecast as to what the next few

years will bring.

REVIEW OF ‘A MODEST PROPOSAL’ BY JONATHAN SWIFT You’ve probably heard of Jonathan Swift, known famously as the author of “Gulliver’s Travels.” That perennially favorite tale is a hilarious saga as the wayward Lemuel Gulliver finds himself a giant in one realm, a minim in another. Elsewhere, the errant traveler encounters hopelessly self-absorbed intellectuals. And he meets the Houyhnhnms, horses that excel homo sapiens in cerebration. AN ODE TO THE EXPANSIVE JOURNEY OF BEING TRANS 13 hours ago · The story also serves as an invitation to trans and gender-questioning people. Pen is a protagonist who will meet you where you are, as long as you’ll meet him where he is, too — in spirit and attitude, in fitting rooms where the curtain only half closes and in both positive and negative feelings, such as resentment toward people who transitioned with more support than he had. SEATTLEITES CALL FOR EVICTION MORATORIUMS TO BE EXTENDED 13 hours ago · Dozens rallied in southeast Seattle’s Othello Park Saturday, June 5, to demand an extension of Washington’s pandemic-related eviction moratorium and the “cancellation” of rent owed. The moratorium expires June 30, which housing-justice advocates at the event expect to intensify Seattle’s REINING IN POLICE FORCE STATEWIDE 13 hours ago · A murder trial for Auburn police officer Jeffrey Nelson has been set for Feb. 28. Nelson is charged with second-degree murder and first-degree assault in the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Jesse Sarey. If found guilty on both counts, Nelson could face up to 18 years in prison. Sarey was a son of FEELING TRANS: JOSS LAKE EXPLORES COMMUNITY AND 13 hours ago · Joss Lake’s debut novel “Future Feeling” tells the tale of three trans men who are caught up in a digital hex gone wrong. I spoke to the author about imagining a future with trans men at the center and what he hoped to express through this surreal adventure into the multi-dimensional trans experience. FORERUNNERS ON WASHINGTON MOUNTAINSIDES 14 hours ago · If you look up at a line of granite rock in Leavenworth or crane your neck at a basalt tower in Vantage, there’s a good chance you will find shiny metal bolts hammered into rock that are used by rock climbers as anchors to climb. Route developers put

them there.

BOOK REVIEW: “APOLLO'S ARROW” BY NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS What intrigued me most about Nicholas Christakis’ new book, “Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live,” was its promise to explain the long-term impact of COVID-19 on our lives. For months we’ve learned many details about the virus, but I’d not seen a forecast as to what the next few

years will bring.

I USUALLY ESCHEW LOTTERIES, BUT I’LL MAKE AN EXCEPTION 14 hours ago · The silliest news this week was the news about the U.S. intelligence report regarding Navy pilots’ sighting of UFOs. It seems like this reveal has been hyped for years. We now finally know what the Defense Department knows about the UFOs.

JUNE 9-15, 2021

If you look up at a line of granite rock in Leavenworth or crane your neck at a basalt tower in Vantage, there’s a good chance you will find shiny metal bolts hammered into rock that are used by rock climbers as anchors to climb. Route developers put them there. Many outdoor climbers unknowingly EMPLOYMENT | REAL CHANGE Real Change Homeless Empowerment Project was founded in 1994 to offer immediate employment options for poor and homeless adults and challenge the structures that create poverty. Real Change exists to provide opportunity and a voice for low-income and homeless people while taking action for economic, social and racial justice. EMERALD CITY RESOURCE GUIDE Emerald City Resource Guide. The Emerald City Resource Guide puts the power of change in people’s hands. This portable, pocket-sized guidebook connects people to services like meals, shelters, treatment centers, and more. The guide is distributed through a network of over 200 partners including a peer network of vendors, service providers HOME | REAL CHANGENEWSFEATURESOPINIONARTSVENDOR PROFILESARCHIVE by Samira George | May 26th, 2021. On Tuesday, May 18, the Seattle Finance and Housing Committee continued discussing the $232 million of COVID relief that will soon be available to Seattle. The funds are part of the American Rescue Plan, which is the $1.9 trillion relief bill the U.S. Congress passed at the end of February.

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MEET OUR BOARD

Meet Our Board. Yolanda Altamirano | President. yolandaa@realchangenews.org. Yolanda Altamirano grew up in Yakima, WA and moved to Seattle in 2011. She heard about Real Change in 2012 and started buying the paper. She joined as an events volunteer in late 2015 and began volunteering at the Vendor Sales desk in June 2016. EMPLOYMENT | REAL CHANGE Real Change Homeless Empowerment Project was founded in 1994 to offer immediate employment options for poor and homeless adults and challenge the structures that create poverty. Real Change exists to provide opportunity and a voice for low-income and homeless people while taking action for economic, social and racial justice. EMERALD CITY RESOURCE GUIDE Emerald City Resource Guide. The Emerald City Resource Guide puts the power of change in people’s hands. This portable, pocket-sized guidebook connects people to services like meals, shelters, treatment centers, and more. The guide is distributed through a network of over 200 partners including a peer network of vendors, service providers 50 TINY HOMES FOR U-DISTRICT 50 tiny homes for U-District. A new tiny house village is expected to open sometime in May 2021 in Seattle’s University District. The village, Rosie’s Tiny House Village, will be at 1000 NE 45th Street and will provide shelter and case management for its occupants. LEGISLATORS SET END TO MORATORIUM, WITH 211,000 HOUSEHOLDS In a state that has long favored landlords, the Washington House and Senate passed two major bills this session that would benefit tenants but, in an April 8 House amendment to one of the bills, codified that the state’s eviction morato-rium will end June 30. An April 19 Senatorial motion against the amendment failed, and the Senate approved the amended bill 27-22. SYSTEMIC RACISM IS EVERYWHERE, EVEN Systemic racism is everywhere, even — and oddly— in math. The U.S. Census Bureau is projecting that for the first time ever, U.S. kids under 16 are mostly either non-white or Hispanic, according to the Associated Press. Over the whole population, non-Hispanic whites now account for 60 percent of the population, but the percentage is

DAVID SPARENBERG

Listen to me: time brings forgetfulness or memories; silliness or bitterness or wisdom. My friend, if you are boiling to the surface with resentment, frustration, anger, turn TIM HARRIS | REAL CHANGETIM HARRIS COPTIM HARRIS FACEBOOKTIM HARRIS FLORIDATIM HARRIS HIGHLIGHTSTIM HARRIS STATSTIM HARRIS TULSA A community in action. by Tim Harris | June 5th, 2019. There are more than 300 reasons to support Real Change's work. There are many reasons to support Real Change, starting with our mission: “Real Change creates opportunity and a voice for homeless and low-income people while taking action for economic, social, and racial justice.”.

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as short. Broken! dreams are made for streets. A surprise . . . shared with your friends! Lost, probably Dark! First, your own. —Stan BurriSS For copy of actual

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AddThis Sharing Buttons Share to FacebookFacebookShare to TwitterTwitterShare to Email AppEmail AppShare to PrintPrint by Cliff Cawthon | February 12th, 2020 If Marvel Studios called dibs on Christmas, Yule, Flag Day, Homecoming, Kwanzaa, International Women’s Day and Easter, then DC Films has nabbed Mardi Gras with a woman emerging from a party

backdrop.

“Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation … )” brings back Margot Robbie to play fan favorite Harley Quinn after the character’s film debut in the 2016 “Suicide Squad.” “Birds,” five minutes in, is acrobatic in terms of how many things it accomplishes, seeding a definitive, concrete and tragic personal backstory for the film’s anti-hero that builds on her story as adapted from the 1990s Batman cartoon. The film also addresses its lack of Joker and Batman cameos without much exposition or derailing the narrative from focusing on the main protagonist. This Gotham City is grounded as a place of normalized organized crime, that Quinn enthusiastically ruled over with her “Puddin’,” the Joker. Or at least until they broke up, and thus, the story turns Quinn’s existence upside down. Since DC’s failure with “Justice League” in 2017 (it was bad, very bad), the team comprising DC Films and Warner Bros. has apparently taken the exact opposite approach Marvel has taken. The films that make up the main-line DC Extended Universe are in-continuity with one another, but unlike Marvel, they are mostly self-contained franchises that have distinct tones and styles. Yet, you will rarely see a cameo or direct narrative connective tissue between DC films these days. In fact, DC’s “Joker” and “The Kitchen” — yes, that was a DC film based on the Vertigo Comics imprint — both out in 2019, were in completely different continuities; the former being what comics fans call “elseworlds”

stories.

Wait. Wait, wait, wait, I need rum if I’m going to do this review justice. Hold on a moment. _(Cliff goes to the kitchen to get rum, with Ice and Artisanal Hibiscus Juice he made himself.)_

OK, I’m back.

This is not just a feminist film; this is a fuck-yeah feminist film that drives right past the tropes of women in film and presents women whose liberation is all their own. Hell, this was just a stylish, fuck-yeah film in general, with societal commentary, grit and fourth wall breaks. Hey, folks, what’s up ;). There’s a reason why “emancipation” is in the title. Neither Batman nor the Joker are necessary in this story at all, despite it, yes, being a spin-off. To all the so-called woke men, including the jackass writing this — jeez, he’s pretentious: This film will certainly make you question how much you’ve internalized patriarchy with each scene that subverts our expectation of media depictions of women’s traumas and/or a hostile patriarchal world. Moreover, one need only look at the villain to see this. The main villain of the film is Ewan McGregor’s Roman Sionis, aka Black Mask, a major crime boss and street-level human supervillain from the comics. While Black Mask is known for his criminal grudge with the Joker and his confrontations with Batman, in the comics in the last several years he has had an intense hatred and several confrontations of Harley Quinn. McGregor doesn’t just present a compelling psychopath — after the acquittal of Donald Trump in the Senate by his homeboys, it will be very clear who inspired this depiction of Black Mask. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, Black Mask is the Trumpian villain. “Birds of Prey” itself balances the character development of each supporting character with Harley Quinn magnificently as well. The characters of Black Canary and Huntress, played by Jurnee Smollet-Bell and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, respectively _(Cliff looks over his shoulder for flying daggers)_, are so very good that the former eclipses her small-screen Arrow-verse counterpart! Moreover, Smollett-Bell presents a kick-ass, deep, witty and conscientious anti-hero that makes Venom, Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly or … Star … Star-Prince … Star — dang, I forgot who I was talking about — long story short, she’s amazing. She’s up there with Daredevil — the Netflix version. And of course, the folks at Marvel Studios are kicking themselves for not casting Mary Elizabeth Winstead as either a rebooted Rogue or Jean Grey right now; Huntress is as cool as

her name implies.

If I go through each character and go on to praise Rosie Perez for her engaging and brilliant performance or Ella Jay Bosco’s complex, fun and endearing performances as Renee Montoya or a re-imagined Cassandra Cain, then we’ll be here for another 500 words and I gotta get to

bed.

Oh wait, did I mention that Harley Quinn went above and beyond tastefully breaking the fourth wall throughout the film? Yeah, she does. It looks like Deadpool may have competition, and in fact, when it came to the scenes in which she broke the fourth wall, it wasn’t just to move the story along but was grounded in the character that the comic was adapting. As alluded to before, the character Harley Quinn originated in the 1990s acclaimed “Batman: The Animated Series” as a side-kick and very problematic love interest to the Joker. Since then, she’s been featured across DC’s media. Part of her character is her insanity intertwined in her brilliance. She was a practicing psychiatrist in the comics. Thus, the fourth wall breaks don’t just reflect the chaotic nature of her psyche; they also served as a fun wink-and-nod to the audience amidst John-Wick-level violence. Oh, did I mention that this film has an R-rating and has the fighting and action choreographer from “John Wick”? Yeah. That’s

for real.

All in all, this was a brilliant ride that will make DC fans cheer and Marvel fans want to give the Extended Universe another shot. As we begin 2020 with the Senate seemingly not caring at all about Constitutional Democracy _(takes a sip)_ and with the child-in-chief seemingly content with continuing his petulant and vicious behavior, we’re in for a quite an election year. Just like Harley, perhaps we can all find a little emancipation from those who think of others as

“their things.”

_P.S. Kudos to the real Shero here for taking mercy on a broke lecturer and supplying him with “inspiration juice.” I love you more than you know, M._

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