MOVING EARTH PRODUCTIONS WANTS YOU TO BE AN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER IN 2008!

We WANT YOU to be an EXECUTIVE PRODUCER for Moving Earth Productions’ next spoken word video “black, white, whatever,” written and performed by Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai and directed by Jazzmen Lee Johnson and Alli Maxwell!

This is the deal, as EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:

-Contribute as little as a $1 up to $100’s via PayPal:

Or if you’d like to contribute via check or money order, contact movingearthproductions@yellowgurl.com. :

-In exchange for your contribution, you will receive:

1) Credit as Executive Producer
2) Unlimited Screening Rights to the Video (Via FTP Download or DVD screener)

The goal, the dream, the vision, is to get as many people as possible to sign onto this vision to make a call for politicians to listen up to overlooked communities across the U.S. and abroad!

We will be shooting the video in New York during the second week of August. So please do spread the word, and if you would like to help volunteer for the shoot, contact us at movingearthproductions@yellowgurl.com.

black, white, whatever
by Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai

dear campaign-trail-stomping, advertisement-fundraising, perfect-hair-having,
mudslinging-with-a-smile-so-as-to-not-make-it-look-like-mudslinging candidates for the presidency of the united states of america in 2008, the year of our lord,

i, kelly zen-yie tsai, current resident of kings county, brooklyn, and previously of precinct 47 on chicago’s south side would like to make a request for myself and others like myself to be enumerated in all further speeches, debates, and miscellaneous communications with the american public at large.

now, this could be in reference to our nation of ben and jerry’s chunky monkey ice cream eaters or our nation of women under five foot one and a half with slightly napoleonic tendencies, this could be in reference to our nation of salt ‘n pepa’s blacks magic fans or those who have not yet learned to skateboard, this could be in reference to our nation of janice dickinson modeling agency-watchers or beginning gazpacho-makers, or vegetarians who have (unfortunately) recently turned pescetarian

and although these categories above would be accurate, the nation that i would like you to refer to is even less of a statistical minority, and a fairly obvious one, and that would be:

Asian

oh, oh, oh, i know you may balk about how many Asians you have taken money from or how many Asian events you have attended, but in 2008, the year of our lord – i would like to banish, in your words, the term: “black, white, whatever” to the garbage can of mass media rhetoric forever.

even worse than this is, in your words:

“we believe in the rights of all people black, white, blue, purple, green, silver – “

now, i consider myself a fairly well-traveled and informed person and yet i don’t think that blue or purple or green or silver people exist, but in fact, brown and yellow and red people do.

we may not call ourselves these things, but if we are going to essentialize to the colors of the rainbow and relegate ourselves to stuffing communities into these sloppy pots. i would like to point out that “whatever” does not represent me, nor does blue or purple or green or silver for that matter.

and you may scream well, we can’t talk about everybody’s problems and that much is
true, but i am a sucker for specificity and when it comes down to whether or not
i actually exist and furthermore whether my heart, my uterus, my tax return, and my generation will be represented by your corny ass –

i would like to say: i’m real. i’m here. i’m voting. and believe me, this girl is yellow.

July 9th, 2008   |