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“Thank you @YSL and @anthonyvaccarello and @voguemagazine and Anna Wintour for inviting me to be your guest at the Met Gala. I was honored by the invitation
And…
This will probably be my last Met Gala. I am going to think long and hard about why I came and if it is truly in alignment with what I want to accomplish in this life, the stories I want to tell and the messages I want to share. I’ve faced my own inconvenient truths that led me to reevaluate what I do, why I do it and how. I have been unhappy with what my experience has been behind the flashing lights cameras and the people between them and I so far. The message is often: if I do not like it, I can move on. I’ve noticed that Growth and change is bad for “the brand” here, and when we get sick because of these lies we take meds to quell the symptoms, or we move on bc changing the environment & editing the tradition is too taboo.
I had to really think about if it is truly in alignment with what I care about becauseI I think it is possible to be an artist and a creative and simultaneously not invest in make-believe during a time make believe is weaponized against the truth, during a time where honesty and transparency is more important than ever. Being at the Met this year was cognitive dissonance. I entered and left feeling confused. But before that I felt clear. Grounded. People were protesting and arrested in the name of what so many of us who attended, care deeply about. They were arrested most likely because they were perceived as a threat to those of us who were there.
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I don’t know if we know what we are doing, beyond what we are told. I wonder is there is a way to expand on how we collect amongst one another?
We organize millions for a museum, on stolen land that black and brown people suffer on unless white supremacy thinks they are exceptional- but not for the people? Can’t we be substantially generous in ways that alleviate suffering and poverty? I am surprised that I was invited and I am grateful for the gesture and I want us to be more sincerely thoughtful around how we take from people we do not care about, not so we can accept that truth, but so that we can grow the heart to change it.”— ‘Pose’ star Indya Moore sharing their perspective on the Met Gala via Instagram.
bobmister250
Oh no! What ever will we do without her? (Wait, who was that again?) This loss will surely be felt by everyone (no one).
fishface
Preach!
rickywintour
Bob please take your country white a** back to the farm you came from. I’m sure the rednecks will get you eventually. I hope it’s brutal too troll.
dwick
cool
fishface
Indeed!
EddieB
I guess I can understand their ambivalence but sometimes I just want to say to these young people that life passes by very quickly. Have some meaningless fun, at least some of the time.
fishface
Not a person anyone will miss!
rickywintour
We can say the same about you because who are you again besides being a hating queen.
James
NOTHING LIKE GOING AND THEN COMPLAINING AFTERWARD ABOUT GOING.
Max
true dat.
redzebra1
Worrrrd! Just another Kardashian that should not have been invited. I’m appalled Aaron Carter was there too! He WAS an artist maybe 20 years ago….
Mostlikelytobedownvoted
LOLOL!! Aaron Carter was not at the MET Gala. Smoking Crack maybe. But not at the Gala. LOLOLOL!! wrong person dude.
redzebra1
He was, I saw it. Either he was invited, or the woman he was holding hands with was
redzebra1
Justin Bieber was too. Ewwwww! Really disgusting!
Fahd
It doesn’t have to always be doom and gloom. One can help people without turning into a would-be Saint Frances and giving away all one’s earthly goods. Communism never works for a reason.
LeBlevsez
One can also question why chanting protesters were met with brute force. Communism has nothing to do with it. Please don’t denigrate someone else’s aspirations just because they don’t comport with your own.
Kangol2
They had a burst of conscience and thought about the Ball, society, their own personal values, and has made a decision about the future. I don’t see anything wrong with it, and imagine we may see them next year manning the barricades and peacefully protesting the Ball. Nothing wrong with that if that’s what you believe.
Russian Blue
Thank you. Let’s give the young folks the opportunity to experience life and make their choices. Maybe it took this event for this amazing individual to realize it didn’t work for them personally. They were gracious yet honest.
Take a moment and reflect on your life choices. Thankfully, my generation didn’t have commentary for every candid moment in a person’s life.
Iona Lexiss
Who?
hamoboy
I actually had a run-in with them on twitter a few years ago. While their heart is definitely in the right place, I’d say that their fame and beauty from their work on Pose has given them a prominence in activist spaces that their knowledge and awareness doesn’t match.
They should really do the work and learning first before making statements about many things. Like maybe if they had learned more about the industry and the met gala specifically they’d have boycotted it at the outset instead of releasing this sort of mealy-mouthed statement after the fact.
Cam
They went, took a look around and decided they didn’t like what they saw.
Nothing wrong with that.
BoomerMyles
I had no idea what she said. Just a lit of bitter rambling.
rickywintour
I still don’t know who you are? Oh yeah an old hating queen.