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The Art of Power: An exploration of class and gender

TweetLately I have been on an independent film kick. Although, I think it’s important to stay in tune with films that end up reaching millions, I also think that it’s necessary to discuss films with less exposure that raise important questions about race, class and gender. This is why The Art of Power a film [...]
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Tuesday Morning Truth: New Video from Reflection Eternal “Ballad of the Black Gold”

Tweet Reflection Eternal “Ballad of the Black Gold” from Sam Ellison on Vimeo. If you need some Tuesday morning truth, I highly encourage you to check out this brand new video for the Reflection Eternal track “Ballad of the Black Gold”. The song is one of my favorites off their new album, and the video [...]
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Yesterday in Feminist History: Happy Birthday Frida

Tweet Yesterday was the birthday of renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. She would have been 103 years old. Frida was a passionate painter, well-known for her self-portraits depicting her physical struggles as a survivor of a severe bus accident as a teen. She was married to Diego Rivera, another famous Mexican muralist. Kahlo died at [...]
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The Breast Portrait Project

Tweet Work in Progress, posted with permission from the artist, Clarity Haynes Clarity Haynes emailed us to share her project, The Sunset Park Breast Portrait Project: a feminist portraiture project. It focuses on the torsos those who’ve had mastectomies as a result of cancer treatments. As a figurative artist interested in paint and in portraiture, [...]
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In memory of Carolyn Rodgers, feminist and poet

Tweet A New York Times obituary published today yesterday highlights the death of an important poet, Carolyn Rodgers. Carolyn Rodgers, a leading poet of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s whose work wove strands of feminism, black power, spirituality and writerly self-consciousness into a sometimes raging, sometimes ruminative search for identity, died [...]
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