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🗓️ 22 June 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Filmmaker & journalist Dominique Remy (@CanaryFilmmaker) talks about "pre-existing conditions" of white supremacy that structures Black, Indigenous, & Latinx reproductive health.
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0:00.0 | Thank you. So, Don't go go on a thing. Hey Dominic, how's it going to be? |
0:39.0 | Hey Dominic, how Nick, how are you? |
0:40.0 | How's it going? |
0:41.0 | Hi Nick, I'm okay. How are you? |
0:43.7 | I'm good. |
0:44.7 | It's been a wild like last three months. |
0:48.6 | It seems like it's been a decade at least. |
0:52.1 | For sure, I feel like even in sending emails I just like do kind of a temperature check and like I always end now with like in solidarity because it's just such a wild time to be existing. |
1:07.6 | Yeah and it's happening everywhere too and it's hard to follow it's not just |
1:11.9 | concentrated in one area so can you start by |
1:16.0 | introducing yourself and where you're calling from you know who you are what you do |
1:21.4 | maybe talk a little bit about your film project. |
1:23.4 | Absolutely, so I'm calling from New York State. |
1:29.4 | My name, my full name is Dominique Remy. |
1:32.4 | I am right now a Twitter enthusiast so people can find |
1:41.1 | me being most active on that platform. |
1:44.2 | But overall, I am a filmmaker and writer. |
1:48.2 | And as Nick alluded to, I am working on a feature link documentary on maternal mortality and morbidity in communities of color, specifically the communities that are most affected are black and indigenous and we're |
2:10.8 | utilizing a reproductive justice lens to tell a broader story about those |
2:18.7 | racial disparities because what I like to say which alludes to the title of the film, which is Canary, that like, |
2:27.0 | although, you know, the immediate like reasons why certain demographics are dying or you know |
2:38.9 | hurting so much aren't immediately perceptible, it's still deadly nonetheless like canaries in the coal mine. |
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