# The District

What happens when that art goes from simply being influenced by politics to explicitly endorsing a political opinion? That, comrades, is when art becomes propaganda.

Jokes can be a weapon disguised as entertainment. And because of their disarming nature, they can be more effective in demonstrating a point about inequality, prejudice, or oppression than a serious speech or dramatic monologue.

For years, the rich and the powerful have been the unseen gatekeepers of art and culture, using the concept of “exposure” as an exploitative currency. And for the first time in human history, that paradigm has changed.

Life is just too damn short to prevent yourself from enjoying something as an adult that you as a kid would have gone crazy over, merely because it didn’t have a screening in Cannes.

It’s long overdue we stopped pretending that media representation has no influence over how people are treated in the real world.