New York’s newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani, faced online ridicule for eating with his hands, exposing lingering colonial hierarchies around race, civility, and culture. The controversy sparked debates on identity, diaspora hypocrisy, and how colonial-era notions of refinement still shape global attitudes
The new show explores the timely issues of identity, community, historical authorship and patriotism. It will be told from the point of view of Jess Morales
