New York premiere: Charles Mudede, Thin Skin
Thinking of Afro Asia in connection with the language of Black Power has me thinking more intently about what we can draw from the distinctions between sovereignty, self-determination, and another core Black Power term, self-defense. It has us consider sovereignty as quite distinct from autonomy; sovereignty itself is a refusal to surrender one’s humanity or claims to that which enable that humanity.
Joan Kee and Serubiri Moses: Mao and Afro-Asia in Context
This text might be framed as an offering, an attempt at releasing latent animist lines of possibility for what late twentieth-century works like Bronze Head might do for us in our current climate of rising anti-queer sentiment, on the African continent and elsewhere.
Prelude: A Song About Love
Connecting Diaspora: Short Films by Ephraim Asili