All posts tagged "Culture"
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For David Kato: A Love Poem: a Ugandan Gay Rights Activist, 1964-2011
By Joseph Ross Because my kisses are tender against your throat. Because my lips are not the steel hammer that snaps your neck...
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The Intimacy of Mentoring
Let me be clear: As a daughter of the working class and a first-generation college student, I would not be where I am today without...
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Why I Might Watch Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse
While Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse, a televisual extension of Why Did I Get Married and Why Did I Get Married Too, runs against...
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Criminal Fashions: The Hermeneutics of Hip-Hop Aesthetics
The hip hop aesthetic has recently made its way to the cover of Vogue Italia, one of the most influential magazines of the fashion world....
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2011 World AIDS Forum: Featured Poet: Octavia McBride-Ahebee
The Japanese Teahouse To Greg Witcher I can now see the skirt hems of hants stitched by the hands of the living they keep with...
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2011 World AIDS Forum: Featured Poet: Cheryl Clarke
one million black women and no mention of HIV/AIDS? vi. In this hostile corridor A quickening nostalgia suffuses me, this late evening fin...
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2011 World AIDS Forum: Featured Poet: Tim’m T. West
“medicine” how i do it this not-always-easy how i keep strong on weak(er) days is i think of the joy beckoning for me to...
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The Girls in The Band
The Girls in The Band, directed and produced by Judy Chaikin, Michael Greene, and Nancy Kissock, and edited by Edward Osei-Gyimah, literally screens in the...
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Featured Filmmaker: Nev Nnaji
Nev Nnaji’s “Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights” reflects upon the marginalization of black women in the Black Power and Feminist movements and raises...
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“We Are More Loved Than We Know”: Masculinity, Feminism and the Love that Will Save Our Lives
June Jordan teaches that: “Love is lifeforce.” And the healing power of love has saved my life more than once. In the name of this...
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Featured Poet: Metta Sáma
Sign. Signifier. Signify. Signified: an American African ghazal I’ve heard Death is a white man in black tie, a man captive in a trick of...
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Featured Poet: Ama Codjoe
Red Clay Blues I call on my baby, say save some honey for me. ‘Cause everyday and I need some honey, —–and you best save...
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Gloria Steinem and "NO! The Rape Documentary"
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons Gloria Steinem is a Second Wave White Feminist pioneer who, for over 40 years and counting, has been at the forefront...
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Dunham in the Air: A Reflection on Radical Choreographies and Programming Social Justice
By Aimee Meredith Cox, Ph.D. Retrograde I was on my way to Santa Fe last summer marveling at the technology that allowed me to be...
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Featured Poet: Anne Marie Rooney
Elegy in which the film degrades —————————1 She has seen the angle a man shudders into. / The slab of haunch a promise. This woman /...
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A Review: Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project by Charles “Chas” Brack
By Darnell Moore “Sakia Latona Gunn: We Will Remember Her Name” (2008). Charles B. Brack (Producer) and Co-Produced with Third World Newsreel. Color; 58 minutes;...
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Music Feature: Diallo Hall on Sudanese "Girls' Music" and Artist Alsarah
In one of my favorite songs by Afro Beat progenitor Fela Kuti, he exclaims: If you call woman African woman no go ‘gree She go...
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Featured Writer: shulamith eagle
Visit to the Androcologist The office is spacious, airy and full of plants and sunlight, yet it has the subtle aroma of a medical office,...
