I’m suddenly hooked on this site The Sartorialist. Maybe it’s because lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how much I dislike the culture in which I live, and this site reminds me of a different one, perhaps one that’s really a fiction. It’s his reverence for quality and style, the love of fabric and [...]
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UNITED NATIONS – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took his verbal battle with the United States to the floor of the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, calling President Bush “the devil.” “The devil came here yesterday,” Chavez said. “He came here talking as if he were the owner of the world.”
A Girl Like MeI posted about this amazing short film by Kiri Davis when I first saw it months ago. Since it’s deservedly gotten much attention on the web and is now on YouTube, I’m adding it to my site.
"Black females are valued by no one."
Did I post this before? If I did, here it is again; if I didn’t, I meant to. I’m thinking a lot about black women (when am I not, really?) for a current project and Deirdre reminded me of this article. It’s just…devastating. How did we get here?
The Height of DisrespectNew study on ‘hip-hop’ sexuality [...]
Coco Fusco’s U.S. Premiere
Image courtesy Paula Court
A Room Of One’s Own: Women And Power In The New America Performance Space 122, 150 1st Avenue, NYC September 28 – October 1 Thursday – Saturday, 8:00 p.m., Sunday at 5:00 p.m.
In this multi-media performance, Coco Fusco portrays a seasoned interrogator who presents an unflinching examination of [...]
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- Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950 (Virginia, 2009) September 9, 2010Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950. Tosha Grantham, with a preface by Deborah Willis. Essays by Isolde Brielmaier and Tumelo Mosaka, University of Virginia Press, October 2009, 160 pages, 9 x 10, 110 color and b&w illustrations, Paper ISBN 978-0-917046-89-6, $35.00. From the publisher: Photography and video are powerful t […]
- D.A.P. Fall 2010 catalog September 9, 2010I just went through the Distributed Art Publishers Fall 2010 New Books on Art and Culture. There are only a couple of titles by black photographers, but several that include black artists and curators. Here are the titles of interest: Aperture 200, Aperture, Fall 2010. Edited by Melissa Harris. Includes the feature Heroes of the Storm: [...] […]
- Palimpsest: New Journal Announcement and CFP September 9, 2010Website and Submission Guidelines Information:Â www.vanderbilt.edu/aframst/palimpsest Inquiries:Â PalimpsestJournal@vanderbilt.edu Palimpsest:Â A Journal on Women, Gender and the Black International is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes cutting edge interdisciplinary scholarship and creative work by and about women of the African Diaspora and their commu […]