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She recalls going to a sawmill in Manayunk, where Ahali students built wooden boats, and learned about enslaved people being brought over in boats and using boats to escape captivity.
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“ ‘Don’t Stop’ may have meant a night full of fights and extreme gloating to some,” she writes, “but to me, it was elegance and prom night fanfare.”īrunson also attended Ahali, a semi-rogue elementary school offshoot set up on the upper floor of Harrity Elementary School at 56th and Christian, where her mom taught kindergarten, with a curriculum that centered Black history in all classes. She admits to being a prom queen, though for the public Charter High School of Art and Design (CHAD, now closed), where proper Philly etiquette had her walking out the door to her prom to the tune of Beanie Sigel’s “Don’t Stop.”
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The hoops worked to counter her nerd, art school identity, she writes. The fifth of five siblings (hence the name Quinta), in a protective Jehovah’s Witness family, she writes of riding SEPTA to school, attending experimental public schools, heading to the Gallery, her “after school temple,” buying $2.99 (“Cutetwoninetynine”) hoops at the hybrid corner store/beauty shops scattered throughout Philly, where you could buy “fake eyelashes, scratchers, Herr’s, magazines, mouthwash, airplane-sized bottles of Captain Morgan, candy, sandwiches.”īrunson notes they are called “Poppy stores” when owned by Hispanics or Asians and selling food in the back, and “the beauty supply” when owned by Blacks or Asians and selling mainly hair and jewelry. And then we’re all different from all the people in North Philly.” “Within that, you have the different people,” Brunson goes on, “you know, Black people are different from the white people are different from the Asian people in West Philly. (Her mom always wanted her to be a teacher). we don’t even have an East Philly.”Įasttown’s Mare has left plenty of room for West Philly’s Janine Teagues, Brunson’s second-grade teacher character in Abbott Elementary, Brunson says. “Because there are differences even within Philly, from South Philly to North Philly, to West Philly to. “People are like, ‘Why don’t you sound like that?’ ” she said. “I think what’s funny about Mare is, people were like, ‘Oh, she got the Philly accent down,’ and I was like, ‘That’s the white Philly accent.’ ” “I am a little jealous that they got to the Philly references before I did,” Brunson said. And yes, there will be Philly accents, though Brunson says she feels a bit “foiled” by the Philly-specific triumph of Kate Winslet’s accent and all things Philly on HBO’s Mare. It will have a midseason debut, likely in 2022.īrunson hopes it will be the most Philly show this (City Avenue) side of Mare of Easttown. It is set in a fictional Philly public school, where the 70-year-old custodian who voted for Kanye is teaching about the Illuminati in social studies class.
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But her book also shows how much craft and hard work are in the creative success equation.īrunson still finds herself doing Philly things like filling a gift box with “oils and incense and Frooties,” which a friend pointed out was “the most Philly box I’ve ever seen in my life.” On Thursday, June 17, she will appear at a virtual event with poet Jasmine Mans at Philly’s Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee and Books at 7 p.m.īrunson started this week in the writer’s room for her Abbott Elementary, a mockumentary-style comedy series inspired by both The Office and Brunson’s mom, Norma Jean Brunson, a Philly kindergarten teacher. The internet has been a place of opportunity for young Black female comedians like Brunson, she says, a “space for marginalized voices,” a vehicle that shows, “how powerful, lo-fi, and accessible creativity could be.” Being a meme - an image, text, or video, shared over and over, morphing into cultural significance as millions get in on the joke - is one thing. “Internet kids are more famous to the next generation than Kevin Hart.” “That line does not exist,” she said, speaking of the internet versus more traditional ways of creating. “I refuse to turn my back on it,” Brunson said in a recent phone interview from Los Angeles, where the West Philly native moved to further her comedy, writing, and acting career, but was so homesick for the city that “has culture coming up through the cracks of the sidewalks” that she had to throw a party to “replicate the Philly feeling I’d been missing.”