Thread by @monaeltahawy

"As time went by—I turned 60 last year—and I think all of you women understand this: As the days, years, numbers get bigger, the opportunities get smaller as well..." Congratulations, Michelle Yeoh #GoldenGlobes

Predictably, every award show, you get headlines like this: i.e. older women "looking good for their age."

I care more about older women winning awards and addressing the ageism that for too long kept them from the roles that brought them those much-deserved awards harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-t… #GoldenGlobes

I esp care that older Black & women of color actors like Angela Bassett & Michelle Yeoh--who've been stellar for decades--are getting great roles and much-deserved recognition for those roles. I wrote this on #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
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How many films do you know that centre an Asian woman in her 50s? As Michelle Yeoh puts it, “... an aging Asian immigrant woman. When was the last time you saw that, right?” npr.org/2022/04/08/109… #GoldenGlobes #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce

To see an Asian woman in her 50s ponder her other selves & the lives she could've had, is subversive. During a time when pandemic bigotry & violence in the U.S. targeted Asians, esp women & elders,a film that centres an Asian woman in her 50s is subversive feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…

Women of colour–older ones at that– are rarely allowed options and yet here is Evelyn in #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce with multiple universes, unbeknownst to anyone, including herself. #GoldenGlobes

Once Evelyn gets a taste of options–the What If’s–available to her alter egos in other universes, we understand why women are denied a three-dimensional life, why their imagination is flattened out of daring to want any more than what they have. #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce

Because we would want more, we would want different, and how would our universe handle that, huh?!

#EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce #GoldenGlobes #MichelleYeoh

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