This essay was originally published in NYLON on October 18, 2019
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It's a sight not uncommon on the streets of Los Angeles.
A red carpet is rolled out in front of a theater, while cameramen hurriedly set up their equipment. Lights flash as actors smile and walk the length of carpet, the sun setting behind them.
It is the 23rd year of the Red Nation International Film Festival, an event founded and developed by Jonelle Romero, a Native American filmmaker and actress of Cheyenne, Dine, and Apache descent.
Though it features the usual trappings of a film festival, this two-week program is a statement. It features Native American-centric movies and actors, with more than 20 films directed and produced by Native American women.
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Positioned high over the La Brea Avenue stoplight, a billboard advertising Hulu’s dramedy Shrill, featuring the SNL’s endlessly lovable Aidy Bryant, stops traffic cold.
In her magenta bathing suit, knocking knees together, Bryant is a sick-thoughted modern take on Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus.
But if her character, Annie, is Shrill’s Venus and goddess of love and beauty, then who is the show’s Adonis, her doomed mortal lover?
It turns out he is Ryan.
And
Ryan sucks.
Immature, inconsiderate and incompetent, Ryan is the kind of guy who sends our heroine one-word texts reading “Fuck?” and expects her to leave through the back door when they’re finished so as to not annoy his roommates.
He’s a bona fide schlub, the definition of the emotionally stunted bare minimum with no discernible ambitions, and yet Annie keeps going back as he dangles commitment over her head. ...
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