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Flat White

Here’s a new group you never even knew you were offending

22 June 2020

6:00 PM

22 June 2020

6:00 PM

BIPOC. We first read it as “biopic”, since it appeared in The SMAge in an article on the Sydney Film Festival. Biopic. You know. Like Reach for the Sky. Or is that problematic too, given that the subject is a dead white male, even though he spent much of his life without legs (as distinct from being legless)?

It turned out to be something completely different.

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