December 2011
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*blog for my short film Bumming Cigarettes is now up and running…
bummingcigarettesfilm:
thanks for helping us reach our 300 mark on the FB PAGE. here is a small clip as promised!
NO SOUND MIX OR COLOR CORRECTION. Bumming Cigarettes a short film by: tiona.m. A short film about a brief & intimate meeting between a young Black lesbian woman (Vee) and an HIV+ Black gay man (Jimmy)...
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2011: The Year in Pictures →
From Joplin, Mo., to the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street, it was a year of upheaval both natural and man-made. Text by Colum McCann.
*really moving photos.
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i really just need this apt to pack itself.
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Velvetpark's Official Top 25 Significant Queer...
Velvetpark’s Official Top 25 Significant Queer Women of 2011
4. Oral Herstorian - Tiona M., Multimedia Artist of Black Social Realism
Tiona McClodden set out to document a part of black herstory this year with the production of the feature-length documentary film, Untitled Black Lesbian Elder Project. Through nearly a dozen candid profiles of black lesbian elders (ranging in age...
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REBLOG:... i saw Pariah. →
Reblogging this from when i had the chance to see Pariah at the New Director/New Films fest at the Lincoln Center earlier this year in March. please support this film if it happens to be playing in your city or a city near you!!!
TAKE ACTION!
Here’s what YOU can do:
1) BUY movie tickets opening week! Bring your friends & family to watch PARIAH or buy tickets for friends &...
The Philadelphia Museum Of Art Presents "Zoe... →
aliahatch:
“Zoe Strauss: Ten Years is a mid-career retrospective of the work of Zoe Strauss, a Philadelphia photographer with a growing international reputation.
“The blockbuster exhibition opens on January 14 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
“The exhibition will include 170 prints and a selection of artist-created slideshows, one of which will be projected on the museum’s exterior façade...
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New Directors Flesh Out Black America, All of It →
EARLY in Dee Rees’s film “Pariah” it journeys into a Brooklyn strip club where scantily clad young black women gyrate to a sexy, foul-mouthed rap song. Lascivious customers leer, toss money and revel in their own unbridled lust. It is a scene that could have been in any of “the hood movies” that once proliferated or even a Tyler Perry melodrama in which Christian values would be affirmed...
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THEEsatisfaction’s Young Seattle
*sweeeeet.
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Tiona: Behind the Scenes {SIGNIFIED}
Check out the webseries HERE
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cereusarts:
This woman is the epitome of consistency. SIGNIFIED Series features tiona m.
*hey thats me! check it out and check out the other SIGNIFIED episodes….
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tobia:
#we live in a world where maya rudolph doesn’t have an emmy.
(T.O. - I CRY WITH LAUGHTER—HEAVILY—EVERY TIME I WATCH THIS. BEST BELIEVE.)
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Dear Golden Globe nominations,
bbook:
I don’t understand.
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Bill T. Jones: A Good Man
Watch the Full Documentary
Bill T. Jones, the recipient of a prestigious MacArthur “genius” grant and winner of two Tony Awards, has been named “an irreplaceable treasure” by the The Dance Heritage Coalition. Above all, he is a socially conscious choreographer who never shies away from controversy — tackling thorny subjects such as race and politics with elegance...
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