Disney’s Moana live action remake comes out tomorrow. OG readers of this letter may remember we called out Disney for being complicit in suppressing curly hair on screen.
In a recent Rolling Stone interview, the film’s director gave a hollow explanation for why this choice was made. You can hear it — and why I think it falls flat — in today’s minisode.
Our first minisode was also about Hollywood — I’ll Never Forgive The Princess Diaries.
We’re now also doing videos of these. So, share your feedback! Many of you have asked if we will ever have a video version of our episodes, and minisodes allow us to do that too. Our full-length episodes are much more narrative in structure, and we would have to basically create a short film every time we publish to give those a video component. This is a middle ground.
Next week’s full length episode answers a common listener health question. I’ve gotten this Q at least 4x: irl, in comments, and even in a show review. And it happens to be with one of my very favorite people on this Earth.
Stay tuned.
PS. Exciting and very big MAYURA updates coming very soon.