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Women of Color in Film: An Interview with JT Takagi & Ada Gay Griffin

February 17, 2021February 22, 2021 Keelyn Bradley #AudreLorde, Activism, art, Gender, Resistance

*This post is part of our online forum on the Life and Work of Audre Lorde. In this interview, Keelyn Bradley,

Amiri Baraka, Black Music, and Black Modernity

November 24, 2020November 21, 2020 Wilton Schereka art, Black Arts Movement, Black political thought, jazz, music

I first encountered Amiri Baraka in Fred Moten’s In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition. I know

Visualizing the End of Human Captivity

October 23, 2020October 23, 2020 Felicia Denaud art, book review, carceral state, police violence, prisons, race, violence

What happens to contemporary art when we foreground conditions in which expressive autonomy incites repression, surveillance, and severe punishment? What

Dressing the Body: Performance, Play, & Queerness, a Photo Essay

July 28, 2020July 27, 2020 Temar France #NewBlackSurrealisms, art, Black Queer Identity

*This post is part of our New Black Surrealisms series organized by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome Dent and features

Black Theatre Manuscripts as an Archive of Black Radicalism–An Author’s Response

July 17, 2020July 12, 2020 Kate Dossett #RadicalBlackTheatre, art, theater

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Kate Dossett’s Radical Black Theatre in The