Barry Jenkins, Director, Moonlight: The first time I heard “Every Nigger Is a Star,” like most people, was on Kendrick’s To Pimp a Butterfly. A lot of the music in the film was actually written into the screenplay, but this was not. We were going through post-production and I felt like we had to rage […]
“Brothers and sisters, join hands; we’ve got to let love rule.” Thanks Kerri, for dinner, drinks, a new way to celebrate being cancer-free and this suggestion.
In light of the latest Presidential injustice, I googled “transgender protest songs.” Who am I to change my life? Who am I to fuck with form? Who am I to weather a storm? But I go slow. I said goodbye to everyone I know. And one morning I awoke, and I was this guy named […]
I discovered this on Spotify’s “A Poem a Day” for every day of Black History Month. From the Folkways site: Recorded on February 20, 1966, in New York City, the Read-In for Peace in Vietnam was a cultural event aimed not only at registering dissent against the American war in Vietnam, but also at “bearing […]
Thanks Shannon for the suggestion. “I believe that love alone might do these things for you. I believe in love alone yea yea. Take the power to set you free. Kick down the door and throw away the key. Give up your needs, your poisoned seeds. Find yourself elected to a different kind of creed.”
