Memorial Day
Watch Now – Amiri Baraka’s “Dutchman”
Made in 1966, Dutchman is the filmed version of Amiri Baraka’s controversial one-act stageplay. It won the Obie Award for best off-Broadway play, thrusting Baraka into the limelight. It stars Al Freeman Jr. & Shirley Knight.
Video via www.shadowandact.com
Lorraine Hansberry. (just gonna leave this up here—again)
GB meets GB by Ginger Brooks Takahashi
She was married to a white woman
Gladys Bentley, 1907–1960, 2010“Looking for traces of queer histories in Harlem, I stumbled upon the men’s bathhouse, tales of speakeasies such as the Clam House (where gender-bending performers were the norm) and finally Gladys Bentley. She immediately caught my eye—a black woman in a tux. The year was 1920-something. The Clam House was on 133rd Street between Lenox and Seventh avenues. Gladys was writing and singing obscene versions of popular songs there.”
Got a girl crush on: Claire Huxtable in paper doll form
It comes in the Classic TV Moms set along with June Cleaver, Carol Brady, Peg Bundy, and Roseanne Conner. So much domestic sass in one pack.
(via delisandwich)
Although I do think they should have included the outfit she wore with her cane and be-dazzled, broken foot, I still have to have this.
Sade, Babyfather
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"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."
— Sylvia Plath (via libraryland)
want. this. dress.
