Titles often freight Hlobo's work with themes of loss, tradition, and
gay black identity — but, to understand them, you'd need to consult a Xhosa dictionary.
Not exact matches
What my grandmother and her compatriots showed was anything but love... and when we say we love the
gay or lesbian but yet we think that there is something sinful about their
identity... well, it's kinda like that «love» my mimi showed those
black visitors.
People should not kill each other because they are
black or white,
gay or straight, Arab or American, but should instead rejoice in how God has created persons differently so that new meanings and
identities are always possible.
Unlike my preference for
black coffee vs. lattes, my sexual
identity (and sexual relationship with my wife) is a very significant aspect of who I am as a person... Do you disagree with the assertion that sexuality is integral to the
identity, and what are your thoughts on why God created you as a
gay woman while forbidding you to ever live that out in a relationship with another woman?
She's an artist and visual activist in South Africa focusing on
black transgender and
gay identities and politics in South Africa.
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identity glad hispanic
black gay coalition HIV homophobia human rights.
The Happy Sad (Unrated) Bifurcated Brooklyn drama about two young couples, one,
black and
gay (Leroy McClain and Charlie Barnett), the other, white and heterosexual (Cameron Scoggins and Sorel Carradine), whose lives serendipitously intertwine as they explore their sexual
identity.
«The Wound» intersectionally meshes
black and
gay identity politics to thought - provoking effect.
Cutler employs a vivid color palette to compose internal - landscapes / symbolic still lifes, exploring the cultural and personal significance of his
identity as a
black gay man in contemporary America.
Ligon, who was born in the Bronx in 1960, has put his search for
identity as a
gay,
black man at the centre of his own practice.
In White Girls, his critically acclaimed collection of essays from 2013, he examines his
identity as a
gay black man through the white women who have caused him pain.
Isaac Julien is a filmmaker and installation artist whose work investigates a range of issues, from
black and
gay identity, desire and sexuality to cultural displacement and global financial crisis.
He means Country Ball 1989 — 2012 as an exploration of
black motherhood, madness, and his own
gay sexual
identity, but it has a hard time carrying that weight.
Knowing that the artist proudly embraces her
identity as a
black,
gay woman, one understands the cultural implications of this artistic gesture.
Watch a clip from The Happy Sad: Two young couples in New York — one
black and
gay, one white and heterosexual — find their lives intertwined as they create new relationship norms, explore sexual
identity, and redefine monogamy.
Obsessed with how America consumes
black and
gay culture Muse interrogates how she contributes to this further commodification of
black and queer
identities.
Representing South Africa in the 55th Venice Biennale, Muholi has achieved worldwide acclaim for her arresting portraits of
black lesbian and
gay identity in the region.
Friday,
identity politics gets graphic with Sean O'Connor's wallpaper - like paintings of homoerotic sports stuff at the Leslie Lohman Museum of
Gay and Lesbian Art and Carla Cubit's
Black Lives Matter posters at chashama.
Julien's work at this time, characterised by its dream - like imagery and sensuality, was concerned predominately with issues of masculinity, beauty and desire in relation to
black and
gay identity.
There are also Glenn Ligon's small paintings of text taken from «Invisible Man,» Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel, that reflect notions of
black identity; Nikki S. Lee's photographs of herself made - up and dressed to fit into different communities — hip - hop, punk, rural white; and Catherine Opie's portraits of lesbian,
gays, bisexuals and transgender people in Los Angeles.
While Ligon in the course of his career has drawn from a variety of writers, critics and theorists, including Gertrude Stein, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Dyer, he has been particularly drawn to the African American writer and social critic Baldwin for his exploration of
black,
gay and bisexual
identity, as well as his emphasis on the power of language as a structural tool of oppression.