always hard to follow up with any news after someone’s death
Look out for the Virgin Mobile ringtone commercial featuring five top female bodybuilders – including Heather Foster – which is being shown on MTV. The commercial, which was filmed in New York at the beginning of August, will be aired leading up to the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards on August 31. Click here for [...]
more sad news: Tee Corinne Has Died
This is very sad news. I met Tee Corinne when I moved to the Bay Area. She photographed me because she was a tireless archivist and promoter of lesbian artists. Though I can’t say I knew her well at all, she was lovely and her work so important and I’m so sick of cancer taking [...]
hard to fathom, but then, not
Juarez Killings Escalate As Investigation StallsBy Leslie Fishburn-Clark, Women’s Media CenterPosted on August 22, 2006http://www.alternet.org/story/40116/
Like the families of hundreds of murdered and missing women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Cipriana Jurado is infuriated. More than 400 young women have been raped and murdered since 1993, their bodies left in the desert in the border region south [...]
September 1!!!!
We’re very excited to begin accepting applications beginning September 1, 2006 for the first cadre art grant. To date we have collected more than $2080 for the first round of grants!!!!!If you have made a donation, you are already eligible to apply; if you haven’t yet, please make a donation (see buttons at right; $10 [...]
Black students ordered to give up seats to whites
Status of Red River Parish bus driver is unknown
August 24, 2006
By Vickie Welborn vwelborn@gannett.com
COUSHATTA — Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School were directed last week to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children.
The situation has outraged relatives of [...]
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- Taking a Break February 4, 2012Site 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, [...] […]
- A New Mission for Aperture? February 4, 2012[…]
- Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 4, 2012Danielle 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 […]