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um…kevin smith? fuck you.

Okay, this is dumb shit–filmmaker Kevin Smith is pissed at critic Joel Siegel for loudly walking out of a screening of Clerks II–which I might have gone to see until I read this racist crap. It’s insidious, people:
Smith was a guest on the “Opie and Anthony” radio show yesterday when they called the mustachioed [...]

see this film

The other day I went and saw this documentary about the murders of more than 450 women in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua, Mexico, since 1993. I highly recommend this film (it’s currently touring the West Coast; check the linked subject line above for screenings). This film (there have been others though I haven’t seen them), [...]

are we in hell?

$1681.37!!!!

This is the amount we’ve collected so far for the cadre grant for visual artists, so one way or another we’re giving out some money to artists this fall!!!
Please check out the site and if you have not, think about making a donation. We’re only asking for individual donations of $10 (though many generous [...]

this ain’t what you would call a rousing endorsement

I hate that snarky ‘oh, come on, you’re giving too much credit to Africa’ tone, but an interesting review (thanks to Anna via Deirdre). See also http://carlagirl.net/blog/2006/03/is-it-just-me.html:

July 20, 2006
Museum Review
Museum of the African Diaspora Offers Anecdotal Evidence of a Homesick Humanity

By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

SAN [...]

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  • CARLAGIRL PHOTO was founded on 14 February 1999 by Carla Willliams, a photographer, writer, and editor, born, raised and heading back to (yea!) Los Angeles, California.

    It was established with two goals: to be able to make my own work widely available for free, and to make accessible my research about artists of the African Diaspora, especially photographers, and in particular women. As it developed it grew to also include GLBTQ artists.

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      Site visitors will probably notice that I haven’t updated here frequently. I am taking a break from my site(s) for at least the summer. I’ve been working in this field for 25 years and I’m burned out on photography and art, the site(s) are in need of major updates/ revamping/ retooling, social media is exhausting, [...] […]
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      Danielle was briefly a contributor to this site; I am very excited to hear about her latest venture, the collective and now journal Mambu Badu “that seek to find, expose, and nurture emerging female photographers of African descent.”  Congrats, Danielle! As you may (or may not) know, last fall, I co-founded Mambu Badu, a photography collective […]


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