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THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Octavia E. Butler's KINDRED series adaptation has a director for the pilot!

AND IT'S JANICZA BRAVO!!!

and this, THIS! is why we must invest in independent black criticism. bc Questlove is best known…for what?!?

I have a new short story in Uncanny Magazine!

Le film 'Freda', de la réalisatrice haïtienne Gessica Geneus, est en lice pour le festival de Cannes dans la sélection 'un certain regard'.

Artists just want an app where we can post images, and then see the images our friends post in the order they posted them

It's a pretty basic concept

For #pride , Caribbean Historical Feminist Figures are back - #Queeribbean Edition 🏳️‍🌈

Today, we’re presenting M. Jacqui Alexander of Trinidad and Tobago ~ a thread

This is really really something else. Vaccine inequality and greed in one chart.

We're 1 of 6 Canadian projects in Sundance this year, out of the 118 films they selected, out of thousands that submitted -- with an all Black female production team. And it's been crickets in Canada, which is wild.

This is why we loose so many of our artists to the US.

SIGNAL BOOST, PLEASE AND THANK YOU!

My eldest is moving into his first apartment!

With COVID-19 cases on the rise, prisoners at the Toronto South Detention Centre are taking action. 33 prisoners on range 3C3 have started a hunger strike demanding adequate action to address the current outbreak that has now risen to 61 reported cases. #ContainCOVIDNotPeople

The Galactic Federation interviews Earth for membership

For my old heads

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💌: and for my next trick, i’m starting a monthly newsletter, “are you still watching?”.

for the first edition, i created a streaming guide for the last century of black films: from the 1920s to today. areyoustillwatching.substack.com/p/for-all-the-…

Bit of 🚨news🚨: I've curated an Afrofuturism on film program, coming to Criterion Channel in December. It features films from Space is the Place: Afrofuturism on Film (@BAMfilmBrooklyn, 2015), a planned (but COVID-kiboshed 😢) sequel meant for April, plus new material!

close that tab beloved. you're not going to read it later.

Aujourd'hui c'est ma Journée #cinema !!!
Après deux superbes discussions dans le cadre du #FIMCINE / Festival Internacional de Mulheres no Cinema ; retrouvez-moi ce soir pour parler de la place des cinéastes racisé.e.s en contexte francophone dans le cadre des RIDM !!!

Share & r/t: Join Nov 16, 2pm at 345 Rexdale Road to caravan to TIHC for #EbrahimToure - If you can't join, call Bill Blair at 416-261-8613 / [email protected] and DEMAND Ebrahim's immediate release and justice for all detained migrants

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