Mae Jemison — Sammus at the Tuesday Gold Team show on JoCo Cruise 2024
Channel: Angela Brett
Date: 20/04/2024

One of the big things that happened to Sammus as a kid was playing the game Metroid. It’s a game in which the main character is in a giant metal suit. At the end of the game, they destroy a giant brain called Mother Brain, and the metal suit comes off, and they’re a woman in a pink leotard and pink boots, and Sammus was amazed and shocked to see that she was the character she’d been playing the whole time. It forced her to think about her stupid and gendered ideas about what women can and can’t do. So this track is called Mae Jemison, after the first Black woman to travel to space. In this track she’s taking on a mission and is going to beat somebody’s behind.

This show as a single video is at https://youtu.be/16XlpFJMxts
A playlist of individual videos of this show is at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ-l6mr1dW0iU9vHE5w3H88v9VBeK93GJ
Everything I've uploaded of JoCo Cruise 2024 is at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ-l6mr1dW0h53AZw3dUh2vo8pR5cluUe