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Solace avail on Amazon, ITunes, On Demand. A coming-of-age film ft @HopeOlaide @MsLynnWhitfield, @GlynnTurman @ChelseaTavares @Luku650
Dir: @tchaiko
🎥 : @franciscole
🎶: @OfficialMeshell
Co-production @morgansmark
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Free PDF 📚: On Being Human as Praxis by Sylvia Wynter
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ALT Image of book cover of Sylvia wynter with an afro, wearing glasses while holding paper and pen Title: Being Human as Praxis Book Summary: Jamaican writer/ cultural theorist best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science, and black studies, to explore race, the legacy of colonialism, and representations of humanness. Wynter’s work, highlighting her insights on how race, location, and time together inform what it means to be human. The contributors explore Wynter’s stunning reconceptualization of the human in relation to concepts of blackness, modernity, urban space, the Caribbean, science studies, migratory politics, and the interconnectedness of creative and theoretical resistances. The collection includes an extensive conversation between Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick that delineates Wynter’s engagement with writers such as Frantz Fanon, W. E. B. DuBois, and Aimé Césaire ongoing others.
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Scores of protesters marched in Half-Way-Tree, St Andrew on Saturday expressing support for Palestine and demanding that the Jamaican government cut diplomatic ties with Israel.
jamaicaobserver.com/2024/05/…
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This is in honor of Cassie and @sistadbarnes and all of the Women fighting for their lives and truths to be recognized and protected 🏴☠️ Thank you Pat Parker for your words @thehillmanfiles
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Jamaica has a rich history of showing solidarity with groups of people across the world fighting against colonisers for their liberation, now the Jamaican government is disrespecting that history by maintaining ties with Israel.
#JamaicansforPalestine
#FreePalestine
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The Andrew Holness-led Jamaican government is going against the wishes of the people, we demand that this be made right.
#JamaicansforPalestine
I am so warmed by this thread! Can’t wait for the world to see what more we do together @famekid -
In a serendipitous way, “Solace” made me realize things about the women in my life, and my view on self and trauma. Thank you @tchaiko! So happy this was recognized because it was and is absolutely important and relevant… especially having two little sisters.
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Shoutout to @tchaiko for her grace and openness in allowing me to be a part of “Solace.” It was an honor learning from one of the most generous humans I had the pleasure of living and working and making with, in her unique journey as a black woman. I reflect heavily often.
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This strike is part of a larger struggle of working people across the US & Europe. Transnational Capital forces have combined to degrade the living & working conditions of all working men & women wherever they’re employed, & the Arts are no exception #SAGAFTRA #SAGstrike #WGA
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"These scans have already been happening..." 😖
Sean Astin, SAG-AFTRA negotiating committee, on AI discussions with the AMPTP: “The producers across the table just wouldn’t engage, wouldn’t really talk about what’s at stake...” #ActorsStrike
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"And even if I never get to make another film, just look at the film I made." ~ Sam Greenlee
Today is the birthday of Chicago born author/producer Sam Greenlee, whose novel and film The Spook Who Sat by the Door changed lives. My essay on Greenlee, his literary debut & groundbreaking movie will be published next year in a soon to be announced film book. @Pulpcurry
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Seeing some writers discouraged because they're having to take dayjobs. Keep your head up. Do what you have to do. I was a full time freelance journalist until I was 38 years old and landed SouthLAnd. Toni Morrison didn't sell The Bluest Eye until she was 39 years old...
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One of Sub-Saharan Africa's earliest filmmakers, post-colonial period. And one of the few still alive. His 1970s work is hard to find. But the films he's most known for are *accessible*. Watch YEELEN (1987) on @Kanopy. The whereabouts of other title, FINYE (1982) a mystery.
#Cannes2023: Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé will receive the Carrosse d’Or award of the French directors guild La Société des Réalisateurs (SRF) at the Directors Fortnight strand. It recognizes filmmakers for their "innovative qualities" at the opening ceremony on May 17.
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The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam has acquired a series of five Shylights by the Amsterdam-based art and design workshop Studio Drift, whose work explores the intersection of nature and technology.
CAN WE GET A PETITION GOING FOR SOME OTHER NETWORK TO PICK UP SOUTHSIDE? HBO cancelled this gem, this show that cracks me up no matter how many times I watch it!! @BET @AmazonStudios
