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“Black Women Artists in Paris” glimpses at Augusta Savage and Lois Mailou Jones before diving into Faith Ringgold, Christa David, and Deborah Roberts’s summer 2023 exhibitions. Yet Black women artists hardly appear in permanent gallery/museum collections. blackwomenmakeart.blogspot.com/2024/08/select…

Psst: The application for the 2025 Periplus Fellowship — offering mentorship and community to writers of color — is now open! 🥳 Learn more and apply by 9/20 at bit.ly/periplusfaq. There's no fee to apply. Please help spread the word: retweets and other sharing welcome!

"holes should be embraced—and not just when the artist and writer is 'eating ass for breakfast.' Their latest collection of poems, But Did I Die?, suspends readers in linguistic quicksand." Eileen Myles speaks with Precious Okoyomon for Interview Magazine ow.ly/WQut50T4X7U

It’s August 28th. Revisiting “A Day in the Life of A People,” vignettes directed by Ava DuVernay starring many great actors and actresses such as Lupita Nyong’o, Regina King, Don Cheadle, Michael Ealy, Angela Bassett, Gugu Mbatha Raw, and André Holland. femfilmrogues.blogspot.com/2019/08/august…

Yay! It always feels great to have a “congratulations, your piece was accepted” email! 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿 #WritingCommunity #writingstuff

Hi! Here is a list of 30+ literary contests that are either currently open for submissions or opening in September! Almost all are open internationally. All are fee-free. Prizes range from $100 to $1000 and even a creative Writing MA Scholarship. Good luck! #contestsubmissions

Happy September aka #DirectedByWomen Month! Starting things off with a clip from “Savannah” (1989), a UCLA Film Unofficial student work directed by the late Anita W. Addison (1952-2004) and starring Penny Johnson Jerald in a terrific dual performance!

We’re counting down the days leading up to opening our FilmFreeway submissions for the second Black Women’s Film Festival on October 1st. In the meantime, let’s highlight Black women filmmakers with significant ties to Dayton during #DirectedByWomen Month! 🧵

I wrote a personal essay regarding the closing of the degree granting programs at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and spoke to three of my former professors/mentors who taught there. theartblog.org/2024/09/the-en…

Let’s support #TitusKaphar’s debut feature, “Exhibiting Forgiveness” coming soon! He did most of the paintings in the film!!! Soooooo proud of him! 🙌🏾🫶🏾🙏🏾

“Black women’s stories are the hardest movies to get made!” Gina Prince-Blythewood This metaphoric scene in “Una Great Film,” written and directed by jennifer sharp, exposes the undermining interferences set in place when Black women creatives attempt to make original content.

For Sonia Sanchez’s 90th birthday, highly recommend listening to her recite “a sun lady for all seasons reads her poetry.” Here is the YouTube playlist link: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

So excited to complete my Q&A transcript with the late Betty Blayton’s brother! Betty was a phenomenal painter/printmaker. Just wait until you hear her story from someone who knew her best.

"I paint so I can write about it [...] So that I could know how hard it is to paint the simplest thing. So that I could keep that knowledge in my heart when I critique someone." LatinxProject profiles the novelist, painter, and critic @yxtamurray ow.ly/PUGl50T8M9z

I love that Whole Foods Market puts our vegan croissants in these giant containers now. 😂

"Collections in Black: A Celebration of Black Comic Book Culture," which runs through Jan. 12, 2025, features an extensive, unprecedented collection of original artwork and other cultural artifacts: pghcitypaper.com/arts-entertain…

Brooklyn Museum is having an exhibit on Elizabeth Catlett, my lithography inspiration. “Black Maternity” (1959) influenced my first crayon lithograph “Walking the Lion” (2009). When Catlett passed in 2012, my kind, old printmaking teacher emailed to me, “I’m sorry for your loss.”

I was recently diagnosed with postnasal drip. Instead of a cold’s runny nose spilling over my philtrum and whatnot, my mucus prefers going down my throat and causing respiratory issues: an irritating cough refuses to leave on its own and invisible hands are choking me.

“Every single one of these lessons is rooted in the unconditional belief that I am enough!”— from Chinonye Chukwu’s brave and moving Dayton TED Talks titled “Choosing to Live,” 2015.

We’re here! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾