Last year at #AWP18, in lieu of being able to secure an event space for the CCM/Entropy AWP reading, I brainstormed an idea to still have, in some small way,…
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[Author’s Note: In the coming weeks I will be sharing other lists composed by not only me but voices I know from the Bay Area, Chicago, Seattle, New York City…
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Part of being an artist is the struggle. The struggle to create, the struggle to find inspiration, the struggle to be. Perhaps that’s why not many of us make it…
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If you truly wanted to unbury the spirit of the San Francisco Bay Area circa 2018, it’s harder to imagine a more fitting fossil of the zeitgeist than this slogan…
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Photo by Charles Bernstein February 12th, 2019 Hauser & Wirth Gallery, NYC Organized by Zoe Brezsny Long-time friends, Cecilia Vicuña and Will Alexander came together for the first time…
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Netflix Original Something in the Rain (or Pretty Noona Who Buys me Food) is a Korean drama that was released in March 2018. Critically acclaimed and boasting some of the…
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? | dir. Marielle Heller | USA It’s 3:30 AM in Manhattan. A somewhat dowdy, middle-aged woman is sipping scotch to get through the late shift…
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The Kindergarten Teacher | dir. Sara Colangelo | USA How do you capture total discontentment? Take a medium-sized rectangular box with dowdy robin’s egg walls. Add to that box a…
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You Were Never Really Here | dir. Lynne Ramsay | USA TRIGGER WARNING: This article contains references to sexual assault and violence that may be triggering to some. You Were…
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It’s the tail end of January, which means we are approaching the most dreadful time of the year. With every February comes a whole panoply of perils: record-low temperatures, flu…
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SPOILER ALERT Alfonso Cuarón has made a feminist film. A friend of mine, a Chicana artist and activist, said I had to see Roma. Well, everyone’s saying you have to see…
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Some elements are recurring features in the behavior and ways of speaking, dressing and walking of some Nigerian people. These weird and sometimes awkward cultural components of some ethnic groups…
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When Hamas returned the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit after five years of captivity, they dressed him in a plaid shirt with navy shoulders, a navy-and-white collar and navy cuffs. Some…
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Queer Excellence in Culture I’ve joked (half-joked, at least) often that “queers just do it better.” And there are certain social stereotypes that perpetuate this idea: think of the hit…
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