Upon arriving at a women’s shelter, Keoki, a sensitive boy, feels the weight of supporting his determined mom, Reina, and baby half-sister, Ari. Now safe, Keoki is forced to deal with some hard truths about his family’s hardships and his deep-seated pain for what he’s endured. With the sudden appearance of a haunting, child-like apparition, his ideas of safety are challenged and he is forced to confront his own complicated feelings for what he’s endured, and give voice to his pain in order to begin the journey of healing with his family.
The way Jeannette has to deal with child neglect makes her insecure about her parents and how she was brought up and raised in the United States. This continues into adulthood, where Jeannette becomes a successful journalist and is frequently asked about her parents by others.
Amid the ongoing debate surrounding Christa Pike’s death sentence, watching East of Eden, which shows that women can be monstrous too, is definitely refreshing.
Like all modern societal phenomenons, it started with a meme. This one highlighted that when there’s a mom in a Pixar film, she is almost without fail given striking curves that highlight the bottom half of her body following a minuscule waist. From Elastigirl to the skeletal Mama Imelda, the animation giant’s artists seem to have a fixation on making exaggeratedly curvy maternal characters.
"Be good. It doesn’t mean you can’t be tough. It doesn’t mean you always have to be nice. Just be good."
On their new show, The Kardashians, the famous family continues to use their personal lives as advertisements for thier billion-dollar businesses.
“There’s always something you can do…to make people feel like they’re welcome”
