in particular the line of...Last fall, in an email thread about Precious, Ma’ia stated that people were so concerned with the Precious the character, she asked, where was the conversation about the Black women who had been raped? I responded by saying that I would conduct a conversation here on my blog, to provide a space for such a [...]
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Beyond/With Precious: Black Women, Incest and Rape
Sunday, March 28th, 2010Musing on Precious and Shaniya Davis
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009Every scene in a movie represents a choice by the director, everyline in a book represents a choice by an author. A significant portion of my understanding of what it means to be an artistin New York is rooted in the PUSH era. When I visited New York in ’97 tolook at colleges, I stayed [...]
