All posts tagged "Dance"
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TFW salutes Collective Member Aimee Meredith Cox on the publication of her new book: Shapeshifters
“In Shapeshifters Aimee Meredith Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit homeless shelter contest stereotypes, critique their status as partial citizens, and negotiate...
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Dancing While Black
My friend read the letters DWB on my computer screen, assumed they were the acronym for “driving while black” and wondered what racial profiling had...
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Can’t/ Don’t/Stop
Can’t/Don’t/Stop: Black Dance in America for Bert Williams, Aida “Queen of the Cakewalk” Overton Walker and George Walker you don’t see the stretch you...
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In Defense of Pole Dancing
By Kira Jane Admitting to it causes the first onset of swine flu-like symptoms: the beads of sweat, searchlight eyeballs, shivers to rival a damp...
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A Different Remembrance
I found, while thinking about the far-reaching world of the creative Black woman, that often the truest answer to a question that really matters can...
