Posing Beauty
Check out this really lovely article on Deborah Willis’ current publication and touring exhibition, Posing Beauty: http://www.nyu.edu/alumni.magazine/issue13/13_feature_beauty.html Here are some installation views I made at the venue in NYC. My work is above right (you’ll recognize it from this blog’s header). It’s an interesting read—I can’t believe someone would tell Deb that it is inappropriate [...]
Behind The Mask: HONOURED FOR CAPTURING TRUTHS ABOUT SOCIETY
(Congrats, Zanele!)
From http://www.mask.org.za/article.php?cat=AfricaAbroad&id=2368
AFRICA ABROAD – 22 October 2009: Well known gay rights activist, Zanele Muholi, has been awarded a Fanny Ann Eddy accolade, by the International Resource Network in Africa (IRN-Africa), for her outstanding contributions in the study of sexuality in Africa, at the recent Genders & Sexualities in Africa Conference held in Syracuse, New [...]
Controversial Novel Set To Tap Into The Overlooked | sexgenderbody
Controversial Novel Set To Tap Into The Overlooked | sexgenderbody
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Fire & Ink Cotillion: A Writers Festival for GLBT People of African Descent
For more info go to http://2009.fireandink.org/index.html
Nikky Finney
Keynote Speaker
Nikki Finney was born in Conway, South Carolina, in 1957 to parents who were deeply involved in the ’60s movement for equality and justice for African Americans. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Talladega College in Alabama and a master’s degree in African-American Studies from Atlanta [...]
Job opportunity in Los Angeles
If you’re not her Facebook friend and are interested try sending her a message via Facebook—I can’t post her email.
Cheryl Dunye sent a message to the members of The Films of Cheryl Dunye.
“Please spread the word: I am in search of an intern/personal assistant starting September 1, 2009. Must have car, self-motivation and be a [...]
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- Taking a Break February 7, 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, [...] […]
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- Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 7, 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 […]