by Michael Anthony Farley on May 8, 2017
Start your week off with a dose of Civil Rights history Monday at IFC, where fierce pussy is screening The Black Power Mixtape and Wednesday at ICP, where Hettie Jones will be talking about what Making America Great really looks like. Thursday, we’re looking forward to two book launches. Andrea McGinty will be releasing her Ah Yes Bad Things at Printed Matter and Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is throwing a party to celebrate the catalog for their current exhibition Queer Threads. Friday night there are mysterious but promising exhibitions opening all over Brooklyn. Then it’s DUMBO open studios all weekend. End the week with a day trip to New Haven (seriously, it’s a painless train ride) where Bortolami’s ARTIST/CITY program has paired Tom Burr with a Marcel Breuer masterpiece that now finds itself surrounded by an IKEA parking lot.
The world is a strange and wondrous place. We’ll see you out in it.
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by Michael Anthony Farley on January 26, 2016
Angela Davis was born on this day in 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama. That’s probably one of the shittiest times and places for a black woman to have been born in the past 72 years. But despite the odds stacked against her, Davis definitely made the world a less shitty place for us all—even for a white-male-body-having person like myself.
It’s nearly impossible to list all of Davis’s accomplishments in academics and activism, but she’s been eloquently outspoken and proactive in everything from the antiwar movement to the Black Panther Party. She’s the godmother of Black Feminism; helped found the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism; connected the dots between environmental injustice, the prison-industrial-complex, and imperialism; and was one of the first champions of gay liberation and animal rights. She’s been to jail and a PhD program. She made hair a political statement. Angela Davis is 72 and still fucking badass.
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