Grrrl Justice
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A short narrative film, Grrrl Justice follows the stories of three characters – one being released from juvenile detention, another being exploited by a sex trafficker, and one navigating the school to prison pipeline. The film examines how traumatic backgrounds including family violence, racism, poverty, sexual abuse, homophobia and transphobia attach young people to systems that criminalize them, rather than alleviate the impacts of systemic oppression in their lives. It also takes an honest look at how these youth are employing their agency, body autonomy, and healthy resistance in pursuit of their own liberation.
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Main credits
Vernon, Shontina (film director)
Vernon, Shontina (film producer)
Vernon, Shontina (screenwriter)
Grey, Kirby (film producer)
Tep, Moni (actor)
Harris, Kamaria Hallums (actor)
Seboulisa, Zora (actor)
Other credits
Cinematography, Zia Moharjerjasbi; editing, Leah Franks.
Distributor subjects
Social Issues,Race and RacismKeywords
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JDC, how may I help
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You?
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It\'s fine. Just get here when you can.
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It ain\'t like she can go nowhere.
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Where did I go? I
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That one. Better be glad
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she\'s leaving.
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I ain\'t been able to get a new nail put on my thumb since
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she ripped that s**t back.
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She\'ll be back. Rip the whole nail off my finger. Look.
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Damn.
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I know you don\'t believe me, but I,
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I am happy you\'re home.
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I am doing everything. I know how you know that.
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Well, I am.
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I am really pushing it.
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Lisa, if I\'m gonna lose the time,
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I can save the money on lunch.
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You remember to make an appointment to get the oil checked.
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I could just drive up. I want you to use my mechanic.
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You hear me? He\'s reasonable.
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And he always lets me know if there\'s something else
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that\'s gonna need replacing.
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I can just tell you that you don\'t know a thing about cars.
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You would\'ve fixed yours if you did.
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There\'s enough for you both to make yourselves one.
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Pretty sure. I\'m gonna have to stay late. Pick this up.
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15. How many years we been doing this, man?
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Yeah, that\'s right. So gimme
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a little credit that I know what you like.
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So it\'s you with the light. Okay, let\'s wait there.
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You know what time it is?
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You got an hour? Yeah. Make it two.
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Double the pay.
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Take good care of you.
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Lemme see. I\'m not ready yet. Come on.
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I got a few more things to write. Girl. You know it\'s good.
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See? Alright.
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You don\'t see me. Don\'t be looking at me.
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Understand nobody was paying you any mind.
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I\'m not talking to you. You two young men have a
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problem I need to help with.
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If I catch you looking at me like
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that again, it\'ll be your laugh.
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You gonna let him talk to her like that?
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So, to be fair, I have had a lot
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of complaints from your teachers.
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I\'m trying to tell you that I don\'t feel safe here.
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And I hear you. And all I\'m saying is
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that maybe you might consider your behavior
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and how it might contribute to the problem.
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What behavior. This is who I am.
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Whatever. I\'m not done.
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I\'m,
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there\'s a student moving toward the exit.
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Mm.
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Time for new eyes and new hands
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and new feet, new minds, new worlds
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and suns beyond anything they dreamt or we can see.
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We are seeds. Mm-Hmm. The bears of new realities.
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Untangling the old, breaking the holds.
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All the while welcoming our own unfoldings chosen
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because we know it rests with us to believe
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all we were ever meant to be was free.
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I said all we were ever meant to be was free moving
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as one throughout all eternity.
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Ain\'t no stopping me ain. Ain\'t no stopping.
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We ain\'t no stopping me.
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Ain\'t no stopping we, I said ain\'t no stopping me.
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Ain\'t no stopping. We,
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This is for a friend of mine who\'s still locked up.
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I just got out and since she doesn\'t know when she\'s getting
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out or if she\'s ever getting out,
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she asked me to do this for her.
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Things change. I\'ve changed. And you\'ve changed.
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We\'ve changed. For better or for worse.
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You\'ve given up on me.
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I\'ve turned in my cause. We live on different planet.
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Your flying
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and I landed
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around flying your stop there.
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It doesn\'t feel the same here.
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Tell me, how did we get here?
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Tell me, is it supposed to end here?
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I don\'t have all the answers.
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Thank you.
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They say you never know when the words
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you speak could be a last.
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These could be my last.
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Just a couple hours ago I was turning a trick.
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Um, my third one today, I\'m pretty sure my,
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my pimp is looking for me right now.
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But I saw myself
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through the car window, the reflection
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of our bodies moving together.
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And I thought to myself, I,
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only one of us is here.
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And it scared me because I remember being more than just a
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body more than this.
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I remember being me.
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Woo.
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Whitey returns to earth, thirsty for forgiveness
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and we turn his ass away.
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We don\'t need him no more
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and we be damned if we let him appropriate this joy
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in our renewed earth.
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We have forgotten all the language for thank you officer.
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We have dissolved his borders, broken his prisons,
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and blocked his revolving door of oppressors here.
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The water is good again.
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In it we have baptized our families with names
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more sacred than criminal.
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Here. Every brown kid is a star war wishing on.
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And every black girl is sun
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so bright she can never go missing.
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And Whitey asks how much a ticket back to earth costs.
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And we say, we don\'t need your money no more.
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We\'ve burned it all for war, but mostly for fun.
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We say, what are you willing to give back?
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Instead, we are the reparations at the
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center of the universe.
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I was just a baby girl, both always on my hips.
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Anding how I the world, angry at the violence on
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start to kill off all my people.
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I\'m so sensitive. I let focus on my energy.
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A veteran in the universe, mailbox.
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Every day I put my letter in.
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If I go against my conscious, I could kiss my heart goodbye.
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And there\'s so many people
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who don\'t have one and they wonder.
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It makes me cry.
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I project so.