6 February, 2021

Hannah Gadsby, Netflix: Douglas

Listening/Watching
Ntozake Shange: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Reading
“People can cry much easier than they can change.”

–James Baldwin

Quote of the Week

10 January, 2021

Liz Garbus, Netflix: What Happened, Miss Simone?

Listening/Watching
James Baldwin: The Devil Finds Work

Reading
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”

–James Baldwin

Quote of the Week

26 December, 2020

Abdellatif Kechiche: Blue is the Warmest Color

Listening/Watching
Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing

Reading
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”

–James Baldwin

Quote of the Week

12 December, 2020

Céline Sciamma, Pyramide Films: Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Listening/Watching
Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad

Reading
“I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.”

–James Baldwin

Quote of the Week

28 November, 2020

Michaela Coel, HBO: I May Destroy You

Listening/Watching
PE Moskowitz: How To Kill a City

Reading
“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”

–Aldous Huxley

Quote of the Week

14 November, 2020

Mati Diop, Netflix: Atlantics

Listening/Watching
Helen Bannerman: The Story of Little Black Sambo

Reading
“To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.”

–Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quote of the Week