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“ In these “Hard Times” it’s so easy to point out “What’s Wrong with _____ ” bc since #Election2016, so many harmful behaviors have been given free reign, running “#wild” to challenge “#civilization” … I have been looking for ways to learn from it all … and one of the places my mind keeps “roaming” … is that … these harmful behaviors are exhibited by those who took the opportunity to capitalize upon the #Misogyny#Racism #Homophobia #Sexism #Corporatism #ClimateDenial #Greed + Fanciful Justifiers 4 #Indifference 2wrd our fellow #HumanBeings #Life#Wildlife #MotherEarth #Oceans which has unfortunately sought to fully dominate our shared cultures, civilizations and #planet for years, and centuries. The #21stCentury is our #Opportunity to View, in full View … the tendencies we have struggled to manage for so long … the #21stCentury is our Opportunity to ask OURSELVES, every one of us : What part of ME seeks to #coopt and #compete instead of #cooperate… We see that #competitive “ one upsmanship ” in every aspect of every #industry … including industries like #arts + #education … #medicine#law … not to say that #competition is necessarily negative, it often brings out the best in us … but often, it’s just about #Power + finally #Succeeding so we can brag to our parents, friends, and ourselves … We see daily, as a result of the #misogyny which has seeped itself deeply into the cell walls of every aspect of culture, including EVEN the #DemocraticParty ( we know the Republican Party has fed from the trough of misogyny, sexism, racism, homophobia, and climate neglect for many years ) What we witness today is an example of what happens with an #Ego #RunAmuck … the #depravity of pure #ambition … leading to pure fascism … so I ask every one of us … to ask ourselves in our own hearts : in what part of my life am I seeking to co-opt innocence simply in order to prove my “superiority” … Again, nothing wrong with #competing for a #prize … especially when it’s in #fun and #celebration of the #humanspirit … and especially when it #Unites Us … but I ask, that we ask ourselves : is it a clean competition in which I engage ? Am I simply shutting down my competition in order to win so I can prove to my parents, my friends, myself that I really AM a success ? And … how do I define #success ? … All these ideas came to me as I listened to this episode about #Wildlife … I was particularly struck by the #misogyny I heard from a #Scientist studying #whoopingcranes … LOL … I know that is obscure … but having just made a feature film / indie film that deals in part, with #MisogynyInScience and #FemaleScientists … I guess my “antennae” are sensitized to hearing it ….( yes I know some would say “over-sensitized” … see, THAT’s part of the problem with #misogyny … it can be explained … #mansplained in so many which ways ) …. So … Here are some thoughts about the #whoopingcrane story … http://www.radiolab.org/story/birds/#commentform ( in short : scientists conducted an #experiment releasing whooping cranes “into the wild” but found the cranes began feeding on #birdfeeders situated in a backyard … when they asked the “lady of the house” to take down her bird-feeders, she refused … we ultimately discover that the reason she refused to take down the feeders, is that her husband, dying of #alzheimers disease, took his greatest final pleasures, and final moments with his wife, in viewing the birds who had visited their home for so many years … ) … these thoughts also relate to every other aspect of this excellent episode of the always excellent #radiolab #radiolabpodcast : i want to preface my comment with the fact that I am a person who is SUPER dedicated to protecting the #environment, and ESPECIALLY our sisters and brothers in the wildlife kingdom… I mean … I am VERY involved in caring for the environment … but when I heard the scientist in the whooping crane story, reacting to the gentlewoman, who was caring for her ailing husband, in part thru their life-long relationship to wildlife .. I i found it so … unfortunately “predictable” that the scientist would have called the woman with the bird-feeders a “crazy bird woman” … he either knew or didn’t care about the circumstances that led her to refuse to take down the feeders … if scientists decide to do an experiment “in the wild” … and yet they are conducting the experiment with a perimeter that includes “human wild-life” … as in, us humans, as “wild” beings with “wild” emotions, “wild” needs … especially those of us who happen to be #male, who may exhibit our “wildness” in a manner that might be ( likely is) very VERY different from the “wildness” of male humans, … ( that wildness in us females, often exhibited in behaviors related to “love” , “ nurturing” “family bonding” … etc …. ) then scientists might add in to their experiment, how the “wildness” in humans might intersect with animal “wild life” … as you might glean, i actually consider aspects of human behavior to be “wild life” … and I know that the dampening of that part of human beings, leads to a deadly “over intellectualization” … and eventually a “corporatization” of the human, being human … so I’d ask … why didn’t the scientists conduct the experiment in a region where there could be no bird-feeders ? … and I also request … that Scientists listen to the misogynist, cruel tone struck, when they maligned the gentlewoman’s “mental capacities” when she wouldn’t succumb to their dictates … I want it to be understood, that in a misogynist world, in large and small ways, women, females, girls, who refuse to do what we are told … by some real or imagined “authority” figure, are often maligned in the same manner … and very often called “crazy” when we refuse to give up what is wild in us. These scientists would be better served, learning from the “crazy bird lady” than in attempting to poach what is wild in her. “ ©Cali Lili ™
If there are any #FemaleScientists out there who might like to discuss these ideas, and perhaps discuss a preview of my feature film project, I am definitely interested in a discussion and my FeMPoWorD™ team and I would appreciate your "likes” and shares on the Movie Trailer, Social Media sites, and at the Music previews site !
( Preview song from my upcoming Motion Picture entitled “ eVe N’ god this female is not yet rated ™ : https://calililiindies.bandcamp.com/track/rules-of-engagement-ragtagraptag-cali-lili-cali-lili-indies-all-rights-reserved
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Informal Biography + Anecdotes :
"I'm still that teenage runaway with a scholarship ... lol, I got a Masters' Degree from NYU, but no high school diploma ... "
Actress * Director * Singer * Songwriter Cali Lili skipped several grades (having been tested as reading at college level in grade school) took her first college course in the entire works of Shakespeare, at age 13, never graduated high-school, never even went to a prom, was swooped up, landing at NYU, then completed her Masters' Degree on full scholarship with awards / stellar reviews for early works.
The Cali Lili ™ Band recorded a completely original stand-alone "Urban / World / Rock © " styled Singer-Songwriter Debut Album which forms the core of the soundtrack for her debut feature film :
'eVe N'god ™ this female is not yet rated ™ ' now streaming on demand on iTunes 🍎Apple TV etc…
She made the feature length narrative motion picture with an ALL FEMALE production team.
'eVe N'god this female is not yet rated ™ ' is perhaps, the first ( or one of the first ) production of it's kind : a theatrical feature length motion picture, in which the technical production roles employed only women during principal photography. She began pre-pre-production on this "fempoword™" project in 2010, including rehearsal footage.
Cali is told that she was born "early" and "on the water." Having experienced an extremely difficult childhood, she does not revisit those days, and often speaks out against abuse.
Born of multi-cultural heritage, Cali is keenly aware and concerned with what she sees as a form of "tribalism" too often employed as "nationalism." Cali writes about these issues and acts accordingly when it comes to her public image.
Cali adores being an actor and takes that craft very seriously, but found herself turning down 3 acting offers, that she felt were disempowering to women, in order to "turn up" what she calls fempower (TM) by scraping together "half a shoestring budget" to build her "green" "off-grid," upcycled "surfshack" feMt0™studi0 in the "floating" neighborhood of Venice Beach in Los Angeles, California where she makes "Signature" auteur Motion Pictures, Albums and Books, "TinyMultiMedia™️ HandMade2MakeADifference™”©
Based on the quality of her work as an artist, and her uncompromising dedication to excellence, she then raised modest financing for her upcoming Slate of Motion Pictures, Albums, and Books.
She works from the Cutting Edge Of The Pacific ™" @ The Cali Lili Indies ™ " where she stays "afloat" connected with her love and devotion to "rippling waters of the world"
Cali's degree included extensive studies in anthropology as well as performance techniques from all over the globe. She holds an added background of intense New York studies in dance /choreography.
Cali is proud to share her deep connection with "Mother Africa." She is greatly inspired by African culture, the cultures of Oceania, and that of her other diverse intercultural studies.
Cali's quote :
"We all originate from one mother in Africa, the Ocean is our collective unconscious, so let us honor each other, our mutual mother, our waters, and our blue mothership, earth. In doing so, we save ourselves "©
Cali's films are inclusive of lgbtq characters and the authentic real lives of these characters. She also delves into the reality of "being female" and a "multi-cultural blend" who "appears to be white," in a biased world.
Cali's career in movies began as a teenager, flying back and forth from NY to LA, while working as an "au pair."
As a kid, she "raised herself" in spite of an abusive childhood and vowed she would never marry, but she married her male partner in 2012, contrary to gossip that they were married earlier.
The partnership between Cali and Wings is unique and her work / films reflect upon relationships and gender / orientation / politics in culture and society in the 21st Century .
Womens' Rights, Human Rights, Feminist, Lesbian, LGBTQ and Bi-Sexual matters are included, along with other Social Justice and Environmental Justice as part of her projects, sharing stories about the authentic lives of characters navigating the "waters" of the 21st Century.
With legendary 'Edward G. Robinson as one of the distinguished members of her ancestry, Cali dedicates herself to honoring a tradition of excellence and earning her "place" as an up-and-coming young artist.
She has been granted the rights to the favorite novel of legendary 'Zane Grey (I) by Grey's son Loren Grey ( writer and educator) for a film adaptation in which she will co-star.
As a young Indie Performer and Creator, Cali and her partner, veteran actor 'Wings Hauser' along with Cali's team of handpicked skilled film and music professionals, are producing a growing catalogue of original films and songs.
Cali is already busy in preps for the next green-lighted project, using her proprietary methodologies as described in her book "The Declaration of IndiePenDance™"
In the past, Cali previously worked in a collaboration agreement deal with Academy Award winning Dutch producer, 'Hans de Weers' (Antonia's Line) which ended when Cali realized it was time to build her own tiny studio, in order to make projects that empower Women, LGBTQIA , Civil Rights and Climate Science communities.
Her wish is to continue sharing her heart with the hearts of the beautiful fans she hears from, daily.
We here at GTA Management, hope you will take some time to support her works.
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"Inventing new worlds with my art, saved my childhood.
Dancin' pavement on NYC streets, I learned my craft comforted by the shelter of my Pictures, Words Music In Motion™
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