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From Matais Books.
Photo A.D. Odom: Left to
right: Trish Carter, Matais Pouncil (Owner of Matais
Books), Samiya Bashir, and Alisa
Yes, that's what I think I'll call this new
addition to FemmeNoir -- FNTV. This week I visited the
beautiful Matais Books, Cards
& Art located in Long Beach at 3202 E. Broadway, Long
Beach, CA 90802 (website:
www.matais.com. Matais Books, Cards & Art is the only
Black LGBT bookstore in the nation. Matais Pouncil is the
owner of the bookstore and has operated the bookstore for four
years. I only discovered it last week from a mailing from
ATB Black Pride. Matais featured readings from visiting
and local authors namely, Samiya Bashir who read from her new
book published by Redbone Press,
Where
the Apple Falls (see below). Trish Carter read from
her book Linger (see below), and Alisa read from her book The
Pussy Poems. All books are available at
Matais Books, Cards & Art.
Please Note: The following video does
contain adult language and I added a warning at the appropriate
spot just in case you need to stop the video if you are not in
an appropriate place to view . More photos in the
Gallery.
Enjoy!
Click Here to Watch
 Serafemme
To view a teaser from Serafemme 2005
Click here
(high bandwidth Quicktime video).
Photos from the
event are available in the
Gallery.
Serafemme Highlights Part I --
Quicktime Stream (LAN/DSL/Cable). Approximately 50 Minutes. Video
highlights artists Angie Evans, Damnyo, Myriad, Jessica Knox, Butchlalis de Panochtitlan,
and Ganessa James.
Serafemme Highlights Part II
-- Quicktime Stream (LAN/DSL/Cable). Approximately 54 Minutes. Video highlights artists
Kamala, Sphear, Ricoshade, Nayahri Suhalia, and closing credits.
Windows Media Player (Dialup):
Serafemme Highlights Part I
-- Serafemme Highlights Part II
National Black Justice Coalition's
State of Black LGBT America
Part I: features opening statements from Jasmyne Cannick and Alexander Robinson and the
first speaker of the day, California State
Assembly Member Mark Leno.
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Run Time: Approx. 40 minutes
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 Part II
features California State
Assembly Members Mervyn Dymally and Speaker Emeritus Herb Wesson.
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 Part
III features California State Assembly
Member Mervyn Dymally.
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 Part IV
features Compton Councilman Isadore Hall III.
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 Part
V features California residents Xavier Leonard
and Troy Brookins.
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 Part VI
features California State Assembly Member Jackie Goldberg.
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 Part VII
features California State NAACP Conference President Alice Huffman and
concluding statements from Jasmyne Cannick and Alexander Robinson.
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Click here
for a preview from the National Black Justice
Coalition's
Discussion On The State of Black LGBT America.
Dyke TV
DYKE-TV WAS THERE!
Dyke-TV has amassed thousands of hours of stock footage over the
past 10 years. We are making this archive available to
filmmakers, scholars, documentarians and historians, as well as
institutions.
Over 150 hours of award-winning queer programming.
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Zami
Audre Lorde's spirit calls out with a Southern lilt at Zami,
Atlanta's premiere organization for lesbians of African
descent. Hear from several participants how this center
embraced Lorde's model of strength and self-empowerment and
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Other Brothers
At the intersection of gender, sexuality, race and art are
Other Brothers, a San Francisco based performance art group
for black and latino butch dykes and transmen who have found
true brotherhood amongst each other. |
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Love Makes a Family
As the debate rages on over the rights of Lesbians, Gay men
and Trans people to raise their children, Dyke TV talks to a
Portland organization concerned about the effects of
homophobia on those children. Love, they want their kids to
remember, makes a family. |
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A portrait of a young Cheryl Dunye, before her first feature
"Watermelon Woman". -- Sarah Schulman
Air Date: June 15, 1993
Show Number: 2
Producer: Linda Chapman
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Dee Deberry, a lesbian with AIDS in Tampa, Florida recounts
her experiences when her home was firebombed by bigots.
Lesbian Avengers from across the nation came to Tampa and
created an activist presence to show their support. NY
Avenger Phyllis Lutsky describes the organizing behind the
action. -- Sarah Schulman
Air Date: June 22, 1993
Show Number: 3
Producer: Sara Pursley
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Description:
Don't Ask, Don't Tell-The same game with a different name.
Lesbian soldiers describe witch-hunt tactics that have been
used to harass them out of the service. Peace organizers
like Leslie Cagen, lawyers, and lesbian activists
interrogate the necessity for lesbian soldiers to be out
without taking a pro-militarist stance. Beatrice Dohrn of
Lambda Legal Defense specifies the particular impact on
women of antigay military policies. -- Sarah Schulman
Air Date: July 20, 1993
Show Number: 7
Producer:
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Description:
23 year old Virginia native, Sharon Bottoms, loses custody
of her son to her own mother, simply because she is a
lesbian. The court relied on sodomy laws to justify taking
away her child. -- Sarah Schulman
Air Date: September 21, 1993
Show Number: 16
Producer:
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Description:
Toshi Reagon is a famous musician. Her musical sound is a
combination of rock, folk and blues. She has toured with
Lenny kravitz and produced albums for Sweet Honey and the
Rock, and Cassleberry Dupree. She is a contemporary freedom
fighter, commited through music to fight for the rights of
women, blacks, lesbians and Gays. -- Pamela Sneed
Air Date: November 16, 1993
Show Number: 24
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Jewelle Gomez
Air Date: December 7, 1993
Show Number: 27
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Documentaries
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And Still I Rise
A Powerful Documentary
Presented by
Urban Entertainment
Principal Cast: Caron Wheeler, Buchi Emecheta, Barbara
Bush, Esther Bailey, Christopher Davis.
Synopsis: Dark, sultry, wild, savage, exotic and erotic.
Many people have difficulty seeing black women as they
are, because of an eagerness to impose upon them an
identity based on any number of myths. Constant and
continual devaluation of black womanhood make it extremely
difficult for the black female to develop a positive self
image. This documentary looks at how these myths and
stereotypes have been created, how they are perpetuated
and whether black women can reclaim their own sense of
self.
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Cheryl Dunye:
An Interview with an African American Lesbian filmmaker.
Brought to you by Dyke TV and Freespeech.org
Dyke TV: African Women Speak Out
Interviews with Lesbian leaders from Kenya and South
Africa. These women talk about being harassed as lesbians,
attacked and still they continue in their struggle against
oppression.
Presented by Dyke TV and Freespeech.org.
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Queer: All God's Children
A look at the Black church's embracement
of African-American gays and lesbians as dedicated members
of its spiritual community. Features interviews with
Maxine Waters, Phill Wilson, Cecil Murray, the Lesbian and
Gay Gospel Choir, and others.
Presented by Freespeech.org.
Poet: Sapphire
Presented by Freespeech.org.
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Sexual Exiles
Film Snapshot: Sexual Exiles is a 30 min.
video documentary about the impossibility of returning
home for lesbians and gays once they have "come out" while
living in exile. It explores both the reasons they have
left their homes as well as their complex experiences
while living in exile. This includes their complicated
relationships to home and family, the way they discover
new identities through the process of migration and
relocation. Sexual Exiles explores this universal search
for a sense of belonging and the feelings of identity
displacement that occur through this difficult process of
relocation and self-definition. Through the experiences of
9 women and men who have come to the United States seeking
an opportunity to be open, for the first time in their
lives, about their homosexuality, the viewer is challenged
to deepen his or her appreciation of what concepts like
"home", "exile" and "difference" mean, both to themselves
and to others.
Presented by Freespeech.org.
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Practicing Transgression
 The
Radical Women of Color For the 21st Century Conference,
Berkeley Feb 2002.
 •Cherrie
L. Moraga playwrite, author, co-editor of the reknowned
This
Bridge Called My Back,
essayist, poet,
and professor at UC Berkeley and Stanford. her keynote is one
of the most powerful, lucid and passionate
denudings
of the ugly violence and hypocrisy of that is the U.S "War on
Terrorism" It is a clarion call to
resist
and to survive.
•Miriam Ching-Louie of the Women of
 Color Resource
Center and a long time anti-sweatshop activist speaks on women
of color in the global economy>
•Kamala Kempadoo The world trade in women: sexual
slavery and the process of capitalist globalization.Kempadoo
is a professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Watch Moraga
Watch Ching-Louie
Listen to Kempadoo
Dyke TV Arts
Jewelle
Gomez
Description: Living as an out lesbian is a
triumph, in the words of writer Jewelle Gomez. Jewelle is a Black lesbian
activist who has spent years on the front lines of lesbian and gay writing.
She is the author of many publications, including the infamous, Gilda
Stories-an adventuresome novel about lesbian vampires. -- Pamela Sneed
Air Date: December 7, 1993
Show Number: 27
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Women of Vision Parts 1-3:
Produced by Alexandra Juhasz 1998
Pearl Bowser
Women of Vision: Part 1: Creating Infrastructure
18 Histories in Feminist Film & Video
Running time: 26:50 minutes
Features Pearl Bowser Founder of African Diaspora Images
and Margaret Caples Executive Director of the Community
Film Workshop
Juanita Mohammed
Women of Vision - Part 2: Lovers, Mothers, Mentors
Explores the history of feminist film and video
makers-women who are drawn to the media because they have
something urgent and opinionated to say.
Features Barbara Hammer lesbian filmmaker, Juanita
Mohammed
Running time: 26:50 minutes
Yvonne Welbon
Part 3 -- Reassembly Required
18 Histories in Feminist Film & Video
Running time: 26:40 minutes. Features an interview
with Yvonne Welbon of Sisters In Cinema and Julie Dash.
Presented by
Freespeech.org
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Dyke TV Eyewitness
Description:
Our revolution didn't start with Stonewall. African-American
lesbian elders tell the tales of gay New York life in Harlem,
Brooklyn and the Bronx before the world-altering Stonewall
rebellion. In this clip they recall, raids and suffocating
laws and racial discrimination faced within the gay community.
-- Gail Dottin
Air Date: May 3, 1994
DykeTV Show Number: 48
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Yvonne Welbon
Sisters In
Cinema -- A Must See Site
Film Credits:
Living With Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100
Remembering Wei Yi fang, Remembering Myself
Sisters in Cinema gives voice to African American women
directors and serves to illuminate a history that has
remained hidden for too long. Here you will find
information on inspiring women filmmakers such as Tressie
Souders, Zora Neale Hurston, Madame C.J. Walker, Maya
Angelou, Madeline Anderson, Kathleen Collins Prettyman,
Darnell Martin, Kasi Lemmons and Julie Dash.
This is a must see site, which features information for
aspiring filmmakers and links to African American lesbian
produced film, video, and multimedia.
Read an excerpt from a longer article by filmmaker Yvonne
Welbon, entitled
“The State of Black Independent Film: The Growing Studio
boon for Men Suggests Black Independent Cinema May be
shaped by Women Filmmakers in the New Millennium”
The Following Are Streaming Video Clips
from Yvonne Welbon's "Sisters in Cinema" Documentary
Julie Dash - 31 sec.
Dianne
Houston - 44 sec.
Dyke TV: Lesbians in Mexico City
Brave revolutionaries, or spoiled middle-class
urbanites? (Spanish with English subtitles)
Presented by Freespeech.org
Dyke TV: Marga Gomez
A profile of the Cuban-American, lesbian comic.
Presented by Freespeech.org
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Sometimes My Feet Go Numb
(1996, USA)
Director:
Lourdes Portillo
Wayne Corbett reads a devastating poem
about living with AIDS in this masterfully constructed short
from Lourdes Portillo.
Me-ba...I'm Coming: A Travelogue
(1998, USA)
Director: Kara Lynch
Producer: Kara Lynch
Me-ba is a travelogue which incorporates black and white Super 8
landscapes from a bus window, panoramic self portraits at
historic sites and voice over narration to recreate a marathon
round trip bus ride between Ouagadougou and Accra. Meanwhile,
our mulatress, lesbian narrator -- white/black /boy/girl --
recounts casual meetings, conversations and coming out in
Africa.
Dyke TV: Risk: Lesbians and AIDS
There are more lesbians infected with HIV than you might
think. Does it matter how they got it?
Presented
by Freespeech.org
Dyke TV: Audre Lourde
"We were never meant to survive . . ." A profile of the
influential African-American, lesbian poet.
Presented by Freespeech.org
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Dyke TV: Lesbians in the Workplace
Natalie Munoz talks about her job as a newspaper
editor.
Presented by Freespeech.org
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