February 2012
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Thandi Sibisi →
The Guardian profiles Thandi Sibisi, the first black woman to open a major art gallery in South Africa.
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Congo/Women Portraits of War Cont.
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Congo/Women Portraits of War
(Photo from Congo/Women Portraits of War: The Democratic Republic of Congo)
South Kivu, 2008: A twelve year old girl stands in the Panzi hospital where she is being treated for fistula repair in South Kivu, eastern DRC. She was taken from her home by two soldiers and brought into the forest, where she was kicked to the ground and raped. She was eleven years old when it happened.
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January 2012
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Faith Davis Ruffins, historian at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History:
Memory, mythos, and history are each modes of interpreting and placing value. Memory emerges from personal experience, mythos emerges as the symbolic/spiritual/expressive experience produced by groups of people, and history emerges from the academic experience of professional historians and scholars.
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Ayana V. Jackson
I love love Ayana V. Jackson’s self-portrait project, Leapfrog (a bit of the other) Grand Matron Army
go head girl! here are two interviews with Ayana on Vogue Italia and Dodge & Burn
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DJ Petra
Monday February 6th, our dear friend DJ Petra will be making you sweat at the Sistah Friends Fundraising Jam! If you can’t wait til Monday check out her soundcloud, facebook and radio show now! She has an amazing radio show “Hip Hop and Her Family” that you can listen to on Saturdays from 5 to 7 pm at wnyu.org!
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Aracelis Girmay | Arroz Poetica
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Chimamanda Adichie|The Danger of a Single Story
the beautifully articulate and compelling novelist Chimamanda Adichie, author of Half of a Yellow Sun, gives a talk about what she refers to as “the danger of a single story”
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Sheila Pree Bright: Plastic Bodies
the epitome of unrealistic and eurocentric female representation, Matell’s Barbie, is revisited and remixed in Sheila Pree Bright’s Plastic Bodies series (2003).
through photoshop, Bright blurs expectation and body to ask you “who/what is real”… an eye trick infused with politics, socialization, and commodity.
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portraits: 30 Americans & the Bearden Project
I had the pleasure of seeing 30 Americans at the Corcoran Gallery of Art over MLK weekend in DC. It’s a beautiful show, and I got the closest I’ve ever been to a Basquiat in real life.
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Self-portrait), 1982-1983
Also, the Studio Museum in Harlem has an impressive exhibition of contemporary artists’ reflections on Romare Bearden, a tribute to...
Faith Ringgold
My fellow Sistah Friend Salome got me hip to the amazing work of Faith Ringgold.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/arts/ringgold.html
http://faithringgold.blogspot.com
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portraits
watercolor portraits | by Miles Jeffries
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Elizabeth Catlett: Artist and Mother
Elizabeth Catlett
sculptor, printmaker, painter
Catlett with her son, filmmaker Juan Mora Catlett, and her husband, muralist and printmaker Francisco Mora, in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
(Madonna II, 1991)
(Black Maternity, 1959)
(Mother and Child, 1959)
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Watch“la photographie m’a deja changee” / “photography has already changed me”
- Joseph Jordan, 16
A compelling video interview with young photographer Joseph Jordan, featured in an NPR/Daily Picture Show article about FotoKonbit, a photography non-profit in Haiti that empowers local citizens to author their own stories in images. The Sistah Staff supports this crucial...
Iona Rozeal Brown
From www.ionarozealbrown.com:
“iona rozeal brown’s most recent paintings are an unprecedented mixture of anonymous courtesans, geisha and other Japanese subjects. She explores the theme of afro-asiatic allegory, addressing the global influence of african american culture as fetish. brown ‘s work signals the energy, critical direction and complexity of contemporary...
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poem | safiya henderson-holmes
for us muscle women, when the bench press gets depressing
we muscle women
do not only lift weights
we lift bottom
pull up the root
pop the nerve of it
and them
strip bottom raw and sour
snap guts like some
snap beans
stink from the slaughter
until nobody wants us
except ourselves
thank god
from Madness and a Bit of Hope
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Watchangela davis | 1979
Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University’s Black History Month
www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection/video/.
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Deep. Ancient. Black Woman.
“These places of possibility within ourselves are dark because they are ancient and hidden; they have survived and grown strong that darkness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling. The woman’s place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient and it is...
film | "Pariah" director Dee Rees' feature debut
I just saw this film in theaters that tells an important story and I suggest checking it out…
“Pariah,” writer-director Dee Rees’ feature debut, achieves a difficult, intriguing balance. It’s at once raw and dreamlike, specific to a particular, personal rite of passage yet widely relatable in its message of being true to oneself.
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Erykah Badu Movement I & II
Erykah Badu | “Out My Mind, Just In Time” | doin whatever she wanna do, however she wanna move, she so baaad!
Movement I
Movement II
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