I talked with University of Texas Press about my book Imagining the Method, which you can buy here (bit.ly/43QVOa4) for 30% off w/code UTXSCMS! bit.ly/3TeSlOQ

a huge thanks to Inney Prakash + @_Ash_Clark for including my film YAANGNA PLAYS ITSELF in the mix of this choice @prismaticground program streaming next month on Criterion Channel 🙏🏽

This is an exceptional book illuminating forgotten and erased pasts and pointing to ways in which Black archives and libraries incubate new and liberatory futures.

Notre grande dame Maryse Condé vient de nous faire ses adieux… Mes sincères condoléances à sa famille en cette douloureuse épreuve. #MaryseConde

One of the best-published griots of our time has passed away. As a fellow Afro Caribbean-descended writer, I love how Condé's novels unpacked the tensions in the diaspora, leaving me shaken, moved, and wanting more. May Maryse Condé rest in power. theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Happy April! We are pleased to announce that our brand new Spring and Summer double issue, “Curating Feminist Film Archives” guest edited by Maggie Hennefeld @magshenny and Laura Horak Laura Horak, is now live! Read the editors’ introduction here: online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10… University of California Press (is on Bluesky)

Very pleased that Third Horizon Festival is joining with @prismaticground and Inney Prakash to present this wonderful film to audiences in Miami and New York respectively next month. Scotland-based Puerto Rican director Emilia Beatriz will be present at both screenings.

One of the most exciting cultural events in Miami, Third Horizon, is back with a new slate of ambitious films from the Caribbean. Miami New Times miaminewtimes.com/arts/miami-thi…

A retrospective of Oscar Micheaux's films, dedicated to the late Pearl Bowser, is starting tomorrow at Film Forum. The programming includes seven restorations, speakers, and live accompaniment. For RogerEbert.com, I wrote about Micheaux's legacy. rogerebert.com/features/retro…

OSCAR MICHEAUX: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION features 17 films, including 7 new restorations, by the prolific director whose pioneering explorations of Black life paved the way for generations. The retrospective opens today at @filmforumnyc before touring: bit.ly/oscarmicheaux

Please support the incredible Inney Prakash and his labor of love @prismaticground in whatever way/s you can – attend the festival, donate, hire Inney Prakash!

"Third Horizon provided a space for real conversations and necessary cinema.... The festival provided this space... to have frank conversations with those whose work was on screen, resulting in the kind of cultural exchange most places dream of." intomore.com/entertainment/…

THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE by the great Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich .Madeleine H. Ehrlich États-Unis / 2024 / 74 min Avec Zita Hanrot at the cinémethèque française across the Seine from the Josephine Baker pool FANTA Rokhaya Diallo Rosalie Varda cinematheque.fr/film/154939.ht…

"Paris, Paris, Paris..."

The Marguerite Duras retrospective I put together with @ICA begins a week today with LA MUSICA (1967), a film about divorce starring the sublime Delphine Seyrig who plays a woman “who goes to the cinema when her love life is dragging” PLUS a surprise short ica.art/films/la-musica

FQ joins University of California Press (is on Bluesky) in celebrating new titles in film studies! Yiman Wang's To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World, is now free to read in full via open access. ucpress.edu/book/978052034…

This “post-biopic” was fab. Saw the THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE yesterday at the Black Star festival. The experimental “film examines her relationship with her husband, French politician Aimé Césaire, and famed surrealist André Breton.” Catch it whenever it’s in your area.

Please help restore this important part of African American Hollywood history! give.myiu.org/crowdfunding/I…

I'll speaking at Books & Books in Coral Gables (Miami) next week to discuss my book, A History of the World in Six Plagues with Dr. Terri Francis. Come through if you're free. Simon & Schuster One Signal Publishers Dr. Terri Francis