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Sandbox Organiser is a set of tools to help you better organise your draft articles and other pages in your userspace. It also includes areas to keep your to do lists, bookmarks, list of tools. You can customise your sandbox organiser to add new features and sections. Once created you can access it simply by clicking the sandbox link at the top of the page.


 * Create a new draft: Type the name of the draft into the box and click 'Create page', you can see all your drafts of that type by clicking the title e.g 'Articles'.
 * Organise your existing drafts: Click on 'To sort' and move drafts into the correct subfolders e.g 'User:/Articles'. You can then delete the redirect by adding  to it.
 * Archive: If you want to keep drafts after you've finished working on them you can them to your 'Archive', alternatively you can delete them by added  to the page.
 * Personalise: Once you've created your sandbox organiser you can add new draft spaces, or change existing ones, comments have been added to the wikicode to explain how.


 * 1) Sort out all the existing drafts into the right sections
 * 2) Publish some of the finished draft articles


 * Add your bookmarks here

Tools and gadgets go here


 * Articles created by me
 * Pageviews of the articles I've contributed to
 * Copyright Violation Detector



Gender
Dirty Computer is a feminist film, outright depicting the sisterhood of Jane 57821, her love Zen, and their band of friends. Inside of the film's housing narrative - the storyline outside of the music videos - The 'Cleaners' of the film are both male, exhibiting dominion over Jane 57821 as they quite literally erase her memories. Her escape of the memory erasure process if a blatant critique of the patriarchy; women rising up, persevering, and inverting the power dynamic in the face of male oppression, manifested in the synecdoche of the 'Cleaners'.

"Crazy, Classic, Life". Pynk" music video

Personhood
simulacra, or more specifically the definition of humanity and personhood

Race
Dirty Computer is an Afrofuturist film set in a future version of the United States. The film explores a number of societal afflictions affecting African American, and more generally black people, in early twenty-first century life through an Afrofuturist perspective.

From the clothing, aesthetics and the design of the House of the New Dawn to the skin tone of those in authority (mainly the ‘Cleaners’ and Zen’s boss), the color white is omnipresent in Dirty Computer’s dystopian future. Zen, when first reuniting with Jane after her first memory wipe, tells her she is here to take her from “the darkness into the light.” The concept of white exuding purity or cleanliness has a long, racist history, and the film’s narrative works to reject that racist characterization. The memory erasure process seeks to remove all of the facets of Jane’s personality, including the memories that feed into her racial identity. When Jane flees the facility at the end with her friends, she is rejecting “whiteness”, proudly assuming the lifestyle of what her society has branded as a “dirty computer,” and in the greater context of race, doubling down and hurrying towards an unimpeded expression of her black identity.

During the truncated "Take a Byte" sequence, the "dirty computers" going through the memory erasure process are seen connected to hose that is pumping a rainbow-colored liquid out of their bodies. While this has obvious implications to the erasure of Jane's queer identity, this can also be seen as an effort to erase Jane's racial identity. Black is seen as "the visual experience of a lack of light", though in actuality, a "perfect black dye absorbs all of the light that impinges on it". Implications of the spectrum leaving her body.

https://nautil.us/the-reinvention-of-black-3662/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/color-white-dark-past-180956274/ https://msmagazine.com/2018/05/04/sister-outsider-sister-citizen-unpacking-afrofuturism-janelle-monaes-dirty-computer/ https://andscape.com/features/janelle-monae-new-album-dirty-computer/ https://talkfilmsociety.com/articles/finding-joy-in-revolution-an-analysis-of-janelle-mones-dirty-computer