While Sunday night’s epic mixup at the Academy Awards launched a thousand Photoshops of the Best Picture card being held up to the camera, some were more inspired by the speeches delivered by the makers of the real winner, “Moonlight.”
Whoever was live-tweeting the Oscars from the official Women’s March account Sunday night made it clear they were rooting for “Moonlight” all along, and retweeted a couple instances of writer Tarell Alvin McCraney dedicating his win.
#Moonlight's Tarell Alvin McCraney dedicates his win to "all those black and brown boys and girls and nongender conforming" #Oscars pic.twitter.com/MiLaHGLYcI
— Variety (@Variety) February 27, 2017
Give it up for #Moonlight, everyone. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/yZTdms4WLr
— Glamour (@glamourmag) February 27, 2017
That speech obviously inspired this tweet by Raquel Willis, communications associate with the Transgender Law Center. The tweet was retweeted by the Women’s March and quickly racked up thousands of likes.
BLACK
✊?
AND
✊?
BROWN
✊?
GENDER
✊?
NONCONFORMING
✊?
KIDS
✊?
ARE
✊?
THE
✊?
FUTURE.— Raquel Willis (@RaquelWillis_) February 27, 2017
Now we’re not sure whom to believe: earlier this month, Hillary Clinton shot a video for the 2017 Makers Conference in which she declared that “the future is female.” We slept through the class on intersectionality in college, so we’re not sure who’s occupying the moral high ground here, though Hillary appears to be hung up on gender as a binary concept … not to mention that she wasn’t a honoree at the Women’s March, despite an #AddHerName hashtag campaign.
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Is this the last “____ … are the future” campaign we’ll see this year, or have we not yet arrived at the truth just yet?
*whispers*
and the past and the present.
??????— Raquel Willis (@RaquelWillis_) February 27, 2017
*whispers* What about all the other children?
— Joey (@joey_mill_igt) February 27, 2017
*whispers*
What about all the other little boys and girls around the world?— Zack Myers (@zackmyers98) February 27, 2017
https://twitter.com/Moj_kobe/status/836335065583931394
@womensmarch what about white and Asian gender confirming?
— Phoenix (@RiosPhoenix) February 27, 2017
no, ACTUALLY, all kids are the future.
— Texas Forever ?? (@TX_2Step) February 27, 2017
https://twitter.com/bazingapunk1508/status/836220005536710658
This is a troll, right? You are trolling.
— Christopher Powell (@CDavidPowell) February 27, 2017
https://twitter.com/COnwuzurike/status/836332457645441024
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