30 October 2009

Letters to the Known

The other day I gave Jeanette Winterson a letter. 

23 October 2009

Zelda by Lina Neidestam



I looooove Zelda


And am really looking forward to Lina Neidestam's next project, feminist sex comic Maran. 

16 October 2009

One Big Happy Family, edited by Rebecca Walker

 

After sharing my love for Rebecca Walker's work with a few internet friends - and the desperate need to get a hold of the One Big Happy Family anthology, the great Jen Disgrasian quickly came to my rescue. Within a week, this beautiful book (plus a note written on enviable personalized stationery) had reached my mailbox. For that, I am eternally grateful to this fabulous woman. 


The anthology contains 18 well-written essays about different family constellations, among them mixed marriages, polyamory, single parenthood, open adoption, househusbandry, sperm donation... Marc and Amy Vachon's story Half the Work, All the Fun on equally shared parenting and Sasha Hom's beautiful account of a home birth in Unassisted especially got to me. As did Neal Pollack's Home Alone Together
"Why don't you do the fucking dishes?"
"Why don't you do the fucking dishes?"
"Because I don't fucking want to, that's why. So can you tell me why the kitchen floor is such a mess?"
"I don't know. Why don't you fucking clean it?"
It's sometimes hilarious, too. 
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Read Rebecca Walker's foreword here and Unassisted by Sasha Hom here

04 October 2009

Based on a Choreopoem?

The poetic work of my youth, ntozake shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, will be made into a movie. That's about the craziest thing I've ever heard. I mean, it's a choreopoem. Or, no: it's the choreopoem. And talks of casting Halle Berry, Beyoncé and Oprah Winfrey? Please.

The play was filmed in 1982 (released on dvd in 2002), with shange in it. I for one will never need any other adaptation.

Shooting is said to start in November. 

Erykah Badu used the characters from for colored girls in her Bag Lady video (which shange didn't approve of).

News via The Root.