“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” —Zora Neale Hurston This quote has been on my mind recently. It is in the epigraph of a recent read: Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir In the Dream House, a title which also appeared in the acknowledgments of the book at […]
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Posted inFilm
Trying to be a player in Got Game?
Fatimah Asghar’s new short film explores queer sex with a video game twist.
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Fatimah Asghar’s first collection of poetry, If They Come for Us, is a warning about the consequences of ignoring history
The Brown Girls cocreator examines the effects of her own family’s trauma.
Posted inMusic
Brown Girls writer Fatimah Asghar on Janelle Monae’s utopia for queer women of color
Current musical obsessions of Brown Girls writer Fatimah Asghar, Macie Stewart of Ohmme, and the Reader’s Peter Margasak
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Chicago-made webseries to watch in 2018
Three local boundary-breaking productions destined for bigger screens
Posted inBlogs
Jamila Woods includes Chicago schoolkids, joyful blackness, and a backyard barbecue in her video for ‘LSD’
For her new video, soul singer Jamila Woods collaborated with Chance the Rapper, VAM studios, and a group of CPS students—one of whom created the treatment for the clip.
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Pitchfork loves TV, so Pitchfork loves Survive
Survive’s retro horror-synth score for Stranger Things means they benefit from Pitchfork’s courtship of the prestige-television audience.
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Jamila Woods’s video for ‘Holy’ embodies black self-care
With her video for “Holy,” soul singer Jamila Woods demonstrates how to show love for your community as well as for yourself.
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Women of the Now advances Chicago as the center of intersectional media
The new platform follows in the footsteps of Open TV as a more inclusive and diverse enterprise for the city’s growing film and television industry.
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Trayvon Martin’s parents on their book Rest in Power, Brown Girls premiere, and more things to do in Chicago this week
Metal from Lordi, Joffrey Ballet’s Game Changers, and more happenings from February 13-16
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Women of color call the shots in the Chicago-based webseries Brown Girls
A mostly female cast and crew come together to tell the story of the friendship between writer Fatimah Asghar and musician Jamila Woods.