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Tag: UK Black Pride

Josephine Baker by Catel and Bocquet – a triumph of research and astounding detail

22nd June 202030th June 2020  Gabriela Frost

Dancer, singer, actress, activist and spy: Josephine Baker took both the stage and lectern by storm, as beautifully and boldly conceived in Catel and Bocquet’s graphic novel. But when it comes to her queer relationships they’re decidedly silent, writes our reviewer Gabriela Frost.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Biography, Bobino Theatre, Bocquet, Cabaret, Catel, Catel Muller, comic, graphic novel, Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art, José-Louis Bocquet, Josephine Baker, LGBTQ+, Martin Luther King, Night, Night / Shift, Pride, Queer Relationships, SelfMadeHero, UK Black Pride

Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place and Surpassing Small Minds

22nd April 201928th April 2019  KUCHENGA

Our contributor, Kuchenga Shenjé, offers a personal reflection on the importance of Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place. Has Kincaid’s text aged well in a Caribbean wrestling with the baggage of colonial rule and its residual prejudice towards queer individuals?

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Posted in Arts, Books, OpinionTagged: A Small Place, Anna Himali Howard, Antigua, Cherelle Skeete, Deray McKesson, Dr Brittney C. Cooper, Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom, Frantz Fanon, Gully Queens, Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid, Kid Fury, Kingston, Lady Phyll Opoku, Martinique, misogynoir, neo-colonialism, Nicola Alexis, Queerness, Susan Sontag, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Gate Theatre, The New Yorker, The read Podcast, UK Black Pride
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