La historia de mi origen trece (o O.S. 13)

Netflix and Saint Laurent are trying to steal an Oscar for actress Zoë Saldaña of 'Emilia Pérez' using the Weinstein playbook of fraud. Not in my name.

Netflix and Saint Laurent are trying to steal an Oscar for actress Zoë Saldaña for racist, transphobic film Emilia Pérez (2024), produced by the French fashion house and which the American human-rights organization GLAAD has decried for its “step backwards for trans representation.”

Moreover, as the U.S. NGO observes, Netflix continues to stream the 2020 documentary Disclosure, “an in-depth examination of the way film and television peddled distorted, defamatory stories about transgender people for over 100 years.”

Compared to the streamer’s current Oscar bait starring Saldaña, “Once you watch Disclosure, you’ll see how Emilia Pérez recycles trans stereotypes, tropes, and clichés of the not-so-distant past.”

It’s not a coincidence that this deeply regressive film has received such broad visibility and acclaim at a time of severe backlash to and infringement of trans people’s rights and very lives as human beings.

Meanwhile, Saldaña, like her film, is committing category fraud for competing in the Best Supporting Actress race rather than the Best Actress derby—another legacy of the Harvey Weinstein era of Hollywood.

And I’m someone who knows firsthand about that era, only from the perspective of Manhattan, where, as an editorial assistant for Interview magazine from 2000 to 2002, I once delivered a package to Miramax’s Tribeca offices.

In the video posted above, I offer an improvised monologue on the current political situation globally inspired by the vast gulf between Emilia Pérez and No Other Land (2024), another Oscar hopeful but sans a U.S. distributor.

As I always like to say, #MeToo means hands off other people’s land—and culture—too.

Oopsie.

[Beat.]

Here’s the real tea, people: No Other Land (2024) confirms my own theories.

It confirms the work of my former friend Susan Youssef’s stunning film Forbidden to Wander (2004), which unfortunately remains behind a paywall because Susan also is an unethical actor.

She abused me at Thomas Jefferson’s university [UVA] and never took accountability for it.

And I finally realized she made the work all about her.

[Beat.]

Right? And then I finally exposed that bullshit in the summer of 2020.

Zoë Saldaña makes it all about her. Colman Domingo makes it all about him.

This is what they do with their platforms, people. Nada.

[Beat.]

Right?

I was watching Colman Domingo—this is called roasting, yo.

I am the king of the gay mafia.

I am Ingrid Sischy reborn and even Anna Wintour knows that.

So Anthony Vaccarello, you too can suck my dick.

I play for Team Black, Brown, Red, and Yellow, yo.

Jesus fucking Christ. I was embedded in Hollywood the last three years and now I’m getting the fuck out. L.A. is stupid as fuck. Woody was right.

[Beat.]

Right?

I’m not going to replay history for the next half of my life.

Thank you, Arthur, for seeing me, baby.

I’m a political prisoner in this country just like Zohran’s dad, [Mahmood] Mamdani [was in his]—one of my mentors who roasted me once when I took a course with him at Columbia.

I was embedded in academia, people. Jesus Christ.

I’m Sean Kennedy.

I was like, “There’s a new sheriff in town”?

Who’s that?

Everybody at UVA knows I wore a pair of vintage jeans with the word "sheriff” embroidered on it, so again, Anthony Vaccarello, yo, whoa, ho, ho, kiddo. Emilia Pérez, nada. That’s a zero, yo.

I’m so glad Selena [Gomez] didn’t get nominated.

And again, here’s the closer, people: Zoë Saldaña should be in the Best Actress category but following Harvey Weinstein’s playbook—yeah, I went there—or is that “Weinstein”? I’ve never known; it doesn’t make a difference. Right?—she committed category fraud, so that’s a DQ.

She should not get any Oscar. She should be disqualified.

So should Colman Domingo for being a fucker.

Bayard Rustin?!

The Obamas are also war criminals. They have all covered up for Israel.

[Beat.]

Look how that Jeffersonian ring just sits now perfectly in balance.

I’m going to see Ghost (1990) tonight—if I make it. I’m very agitated right now, people.

I used to see—what that fuck is his face? Colman Domingo? Colman Sunday?—on Fear of the Walking Dead (2015–2023) when I lived at 226 East 12th Street. Right? On the same floor as Greta Caruso, who also went to Yale, which is where I’m going next, okay?

My friend Susan’s documentary Forbidden to Wander where the Israeli “Defense” Forces also took her camera and destroyed it as I saw over and over again only it’s gotten so much worse in “Israel.”

Quotation marks is right. It’s historic Palestine and integration is the only way to go.

That’s not anti-Semitic in the least.

Fuck the IHRA.

I live next to 420. I’m born again. I’m a secular person but deeply spiritual. Don’t get it twisted.

I used to watch Colman Domingo on Fear of the Walking Dead and think who the fuck is this? Come to find out a couple years ago that dude’s gay? How the fuck do I know the dude’s not gay? Dude was in the closet so I don’t give a fuck what that think—what that thinker—oh, what an actor: I think therefore I am.

How about I feel?

[Beat.]

Right?

I feel the pain of people who be—are being exterminated.

I stutter.

I feel the pain of people who are being exterminated all around the world but especially—

The video cuts off there because I reached my iPhone’s storage limit yet again.

Ciao for now,

Sean M. P.

ICYMI⥥