We will be filming our first music video “QueenS”
Directed by dream hampton
We are looking to cast 20 black women
Dates: March 6th & 7th
Location: NYC
Qualifications: black, woman, aged 21-30, available both dates
Submit: full name, age, height, email and a headshot
To: theesatisfaction.tumblr.com/submit or theesatisfaction@gmail.com
Casting call ends February 17th
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Cat & Stas
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No Mo’ “No Homo” (via @chescaleigh)
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Shawnta Smith and Jasmine Cruz, “We’re From Brooklyn, NY & The Bronx, NY”
Ex-lovers talk about living together and the meaning of their house and relationship. (Closed captioning available here)
5 Reasons why gay is NOT the new Black.
Great video. Also see these related links:
Huffington Post article “It’s Official: Gay is the New Black”
Link to article “Black Support for Prop. 8 Called Exaggeration“
Southern Siren - Maheshwari (from the hijra fantasy series) by Tejal Shah.
Description: Maheshwari is a hijra identified woman. I met her in Bombay during my research on hijra’s while working on the project, “What are You?” I was struck by her loud laughter, sense of fantasy and belief in magic. Her desire was to become a south Indian film star and see herself in a song and dance sequence, romancing the hero and to be romanced by him.
Watch a video below where Shah talks about the series:
The stage was set. Gay men on one side, straight on the other, all eager to hash out the rules of gender, what it really means to be “masculine” or “feminine,” and the roles that these words play in our lives and style in 2011. This seating arrangement was not pre-planned or discussed at any point during the conversation, but for one reason or another, everyone chose to sit on their respective sides. Our discussion yielded some fascinating debates:
How did our notions of gender play into the formation of our identities?
How about in the clothes we each wear?
Are traditional gender roles important in dating for straight and gay men alike?
What does it mean to be androgynous in fashion?
Each person brought a unique perspective to the exchange and, as the best ones often do, our debates often produced more questions than answers. Still, everyone’s choice of seating, something I’m not sure we were all aware of at the time, presents an interesting meta-perspective to the entire affair. Despite all of our self-aware and refreshingly candid remarks, the real question may be what roles we subscribe to without even knowing. Watch the action.
Participants include: Louis Mandelbaum,Antino Crowley, Hiraku Morilla, James Gillespie, Justin Dean Thomas, Kevin Stewart, and Oren Jay.
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Bay area songstress Siaira Shawn sings (the eternal jam) “Prototype” in front of Marcus Books - the oldest independent black bookstore in the country. Gaaawwwjusss.
Music Monday: Syd the Kid from OFWGKTA finally featured in some dope visuals in this vid for “Cocaine”. Glad to see her finally gettin’ some shine. But, errr #stayoffthedrugskids
The ultimate renaissance woman right here. Florencia Garcia Carcagno aka Lady Tragik: Hip Hop performer, Photographer and Film director. This San Francisco/ L.A based artist keeps busy! Her groundbreaking music videos feature an array of unique stylistic techniques and otherworldly dance performers. The talent doesn’t stop there, check out Love Me If You Dare, a short documentary documentary about gender roles and how they play into lesbian relationships. Her work can also be seen in the indie hit film La Mission. When she’s not in the lab, you can catch Tragik performing live along the West Coast or doing freelance photography. Other artists that she has collaborated with include E-40, Too $hort, Zulu Nasty…and well you betta check the links below and get yourself exposed, stat:
~http://www.LadyTragik.com/
~Short Film: Love Me If You Dare: http://www.youtube.com/user/ladytragik#p/u/0/_P2uM-qK7Aw
~Music Video: Forever Young: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkO82Ct_Vso
~Photography: http://www.ladytragik.com/ph.html
**Love the documentary & photo work. Dope stuff…
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New bklyn boihood blog post by Khi Baldwin @theGAQ (.com) read the full article and check out the videos by clicking here!
limchoy lee’s bio says that she is currently interested in “recoding the symbols used in shaping attitudes towards women of color in the media”. She goes on to say that she is “most interested in complex social situations and the transparency of the lines separating one point of view from the other.” In order to accomplish this, much of lee’s approach in her work has been to use opposing images - making the viewer think about the contradiction; and in turn question both perspectives.
Take for instance her video “Feminist or Womanist”. In this video she takes strip club and music video footage and chops it up with Staceyann Chin saying: “Am I a Feminist or a Womanist?” from her poem of the same title. The viewer is forced to think about Chin’s poem while looking at these hyper-sexualized images of Black women in the media. To me, Chin’s poem is about having to choose between one thing or another; to fit into a box - Girl or boy, Buddist or Christian, Straight or gay, etc. She says:
“The truth is I’m afraid to draw your black lines around me, I’m not always pale in the middle, I come in too many flavors for one fucking spoon. I am never one thing or the other. At night I am everything I fear, tears and sorrows, black windows and muffled screams. In the morning, I am all I ever want to be: rain and laughter, bare footprints and invisible seams, always without breath or definition. I claim every single dawn, for yesterday is simply what I was, and tomorrow even that will be gone.”……
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