Till director Chinonye Chukwu didnt mince words when responding to the Oscars failure to nominate films by and starring Black women on Tuesday.

We live in a world and work in industries that are so aggressively committed to upholding whiteness and perpetuating an unabashed misogyny towards Black women, she wrote on Instagram in a caption for a photo of her with civil rights icon Myrlie Evers-Williams.