Hunger! I couldn’t wait to read this book. Ever since I read “Bad Feminist” I’ve been waiting. I was hoping to read how or what lead 12-year-old Roxane into a bad situation. Ever since she mentioned that she was raped by a ‘congress’ of baboon she called boys. In “Hunger,” […]
Ideology
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This Is How You Lose Her I was looking for a picture of one of my heroines, Toni Morrison. At the moment it’s Toni and Jamaica Kincaid. They have this voodoo nexus that really impresses me. In their stories, they talk about a future that is revealed sometimes in the […]
“Bootsy” Collins Vs. Jean-Michele Basquiat DEVELOPMENT Robert Hughes Insightful commentary on Basquiat had me thinking a lot. I especially liked what he said, “For the very nature of Basquiat’s success forced him to repeat himself without a chance of development.” And that rings true; Basquiat works’ are brilliant, although they […]
PARADIGM SHIFT Perspective is an amazing thing. You think that you’re true about an issue, and then all of a sudden, a perspective comes along that causes a paradigm shift in your thinking. In comes, Jennifer Clements’s book Widow Basquiat, a very personal accounting of the relationship of her friend […]
Poverty, Inc. is an excellent documentary. Directed by Michael Matheson Miller, it explores some of the inner workings of foreign aid, as well as some of the unintended consequences that come from it: A system that creates wealth for a few NGO’s by creating a living from poverty, although unintentionally. […]
Ain’t I A Woman Ain’t I a Woman from mpalacioart on Vimeo. “Ain’t I a Woman” by bell hooks is a nuclear bomb. There can’t be too many books like it out there. Mind you I haven’t read “Sister Outsider” by Audre Lorde, which has been on my list to […]
Jamaica Kincaid Lucy by artist Manuel Palacio There’re a few books that I can think of that had a profound impact on me. Zami by Audre Lorde, I read it in my early thirties when I had a strong belief in the power of my manhood, although I would not […]
The Brilliant Toni Morrison I saw this post and was amazed at the genius of Toni Morrison, again. On May 30, 1975, the author and intellectual Toni Morrison visited Portland State University and gave a speech, followed by a Q+A with a panel of academics. That speech was recently uncovered […]
