The Enduring Beauty of “Persepolis”
This powerful story shines with poetic animation, an exploration of deeper truths, and the protagonist's complex search for identity.

Petals of flowers are arranged in a dish with a candle, as if a cake. Love creates wonderful things, but these can hide boundaries and differences, for a while. A couple can be physically close and yet worlds apart, with manias poised at the surface, to latch onto triggers. Sometimes we do everything to get what we want, sometimes not.
This powerful story shines with poetic animation, an exploration of deeper truths, and the protagonist's complex search for identity.
This reboot of The Wonder Years is told from the lens of a Black man.
How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?
"Rodgers' & Hammerstein's Cinderella" wasn’t just a fairytale, it's a Black girl's fairytale. It was a fantasy world where the undeniable beauty of Black girls and Women was celebrated and beloved.
Documented human suffering is never easy to view or read about and is understandably triggering for many people, but it can be educational, and education is a key to change. An overwhelming amount queer people worldwide (and in my own country) have it far worse than I could imagine, and documentaries such as Welcome to Chechnya bring issues to light that certain groups of people would never see.