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AtThe Guardian, Laura Snapes draws a connectionbetween Christine Blasey Ford and Maya Arulpragasam nom de guerre, M.I.A.
Because she didnt know English, everyone presumed her ignorant.
Glowing reviews of the doc might to an M.I.A.
renounce all worldly goods before speaking her mind.
The doc also shows an empathic route to understanding the singers much-derided causiness in a scene between M.I.A.
and her early mentor Justine Frischmann, lead singer of Elastica.
The Guardianarticle that namechecks Blasey Ford sees a link, in the visions of the world both women threaten.
The difficulty for M.I.A.
The interviewer works out that M.I.A.
Im just as guilty as Hirschberg, she concludes.
Provocations can be necessary tools in the face of mass disinterest.
Only, unlike rappers, M.I.A.
has no lineage discernable to the West to make sense of her.
In her bookStaging Dissent, Lisa Weems cites a scholar who likens [M.I.A.]
The documentary lavishes time on this rapid rise and fall from grace: from when a grinning M.I.A.
At the time,Madonna called the finger flash irrelevant,the work of a teenager.
explains the move as born of respect for Madonna, whom she saw taking orders from brutish NFL commandants.
MAYA / MATANGI / MIAalso unveils the widespread, popular misunderstanding of the only M.I.A.
In the documentary though, M.I.A.
But little of late has given her press quite like the doc.
As Miranda Sawyer, the journalist who fact-checked M.I.A.
