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Posted on May 17, 2019May 17, 2019

A Look Back @ Kara Walker’s A Subtelty or The Marvelous Sugar Baby

I went to see this exhibit back in summer 2014, and it changed my life. It's the single most powerful piece of art I've seen in-person. I was inspired to re-post my original blog after a colleague came into my office today and commented on the poster of Her. I've had that poster since 2014 …

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Posted on November 6, 2017October 12, 2018

Black Women in the Arts

Yesterday I went to the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA)in DC to see the Magnetic Fields exhibit which per the exhibit site "...celebrates the contribution of black women artists and argues for their enduring relevance to American abstraction." One of my homegirls put this on our calendar almost a month ago. Truth be told the …

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Yo! If you can buy a tee/tank/sweatshirt to help support @arevolutionarysummer I’d greatly appreciate it. They’re putting together books & writing supplies for the girls who will be attending their program this summer. They have 46 tees to go before they reach their goal👏🏾 Link in bio!✌🏾& 💜 Posted @withregram • @arevolutionarysummer Hey y’all! We still need to sell 46 shirts to meet our goal of $4,000 for 30 personal libraries and sets of writing supplies. And the campaign ends tomorrow 🥴. Can y’all help us spread the word?
Today the Writers & Words reading series has come to an end. We had (what we didn’t realize would be) our final reading this time last year. The first pic is of @mariacgoodson, my W&W partner , & I doing our thang at one of the readings. Maria is wearing one of the @arevolutionarysummer tees (some new ones will be coming soon so be sure to follow them). W&W mission was to, “Connect writers to other writers,” which we have done for six years. I joined as host about 4 years ago thanks to an invitation from Michael Tager (the great connector!) In this capacity I got to meet so many writers from Baltimore & beyond. I’m a bit shy (if I don’t know you well) & can be awkward at times because of it, so this hosting gig really helped me to socially blossom. I am so grateful for the time spent w/ all the folks that read for us & supported us. Btw, that last pic is from when I read for W&W before I was part of the crew✌🏾 & 💜
Me & Elijah (Mufasa in the background) kicking it this rainy Saturday 😍 #auntie
Heading to bed & noticed it snowed ❄️ G’night!
This is unacceptable. Thank you to @mochach1na for your posts because that’s how I first became aware of this uptick in violence against Asian folks. Thank you to @thedwmckinney for sharing @blackliturgies post which I’ve reposted here. Thank you to @blackliturgies for finding the words & sharing them w/ us.
Good morning ☀️ Hope y’all have a good day✌🏾 & 💜
Snow day ❄️
R.I.P. to Cicely Tyson who has been a part of the culture from my earliest days. From seeing her in Roots, to countless movies in between. More recently I enjoyed her as Analise Keating’s mother on How to Get Away w/ Murder & her role in Ava Duvernay’s Cherish the Day. I think I actually believed she’d be in the physical plane forever. Earlier today I was reminding myself to order her book. So thankful I got to share this earth w/ her. 💜 Photograph by Mamadi Doumbouya.

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