Hanging out w/Usman Ally

hanging out with Usman Ally , writer/director of the powerful, deeply moving short film Emigre Americana, after it screened at the NewFilmmakers Los Angeles monthly film festival this past weekend...the film wrestles with the complicated nature of intergenerational immigrant trauma, especially in trying to distinguish "white saviors" from "white allies", in much the same way as my debut memoir Killing Justice wrestles with the complicated nature of intergenerational & adoptive trauma, especially in trying to distinguish between those who can and cannot be trusted...