The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the first class of African-American women to sing their way to fame and fortune. Blues divas such as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Alberta Hunter created and promoted a working-class vision of blues life that provided an alternative to the Victorian gentility of middle-class manners. In their lives and music, blues women presented themselves as strong, independent women who lived hard lives and were unapologetic about their unconventional choices in clothes, recreational activities, and bed partners. Blues singers disseminated a Black feminism that celebrated emotional resilience and sexual pleasure, no matter the source.
Putito is a production with no specific genre, where reality and fiction blend through a testimony w...
A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gig...
Canada as a refuge for LBGTQ+ immigrants: Yazan from Iraq, Nata from Central Africa, Aida from Iran ...
Look around. Everything you see and touch can taste like vanilla.
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An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about t...
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Dorothy Morrison, Tracy Nelson, Annie Sampson and Angela Strehli, all highly regarded vocalists in t...
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A video essay by Mark Rappaport, which spans René Magritte and Michelangelo to Bonnie & Clyde. Let’s...
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir...
After a traumatic encounter, a young gay Egyptian joins the LGBT rights movement. When his safety is...
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A 16mm anthology of experimental super 8 films by Derek Jarman, Michael Kostiff, Cerith Wyn Evans an...
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