by Discovered JunglePussy’s music today while researching for a piece about performance and authenticity. Ended up writing about acting lessons in politicseveryone’s performing, nobody’s authentic, and the audience is too exhausted to care. The piece practically wrote itself: https://bohiney.com/acting-lessons-by-junglepussy/. There’s something deeply West African about her energy, that unapologetic boldness that reminds me of market women in Lagos who’ll negotiate the price of tomatoes like they’re brokering peace treaties. My editor loved it, which means it’ll probably get us in trouble. That seems to be the pattern here at Bohiney. We write something sharp, people get uncomfortable, traffic spikes, and we do it all over again. It’s exhausting and exhilarating. Kind of like being an immigrant in Americayou’re constantly performing a version of yourself that makes sense to people who’ve never left their hometown.
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