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“Abolition begins with imagination, but it certainly does not end there”: An interview with ‘Neptune’ playwright Timothy DuWhite
By Hari Ziyad On July 13th, poet, writer, RaceBaitR deputy editor, performance artist and playwright Timothy DuWhite’s one-man show Neptune had its world premiere at Dixon Place in NYC, during the venue’s annual HOT! Festival: The NYC Celebration of Queer…
Fighting a culture of silence around sexuality that breeds child sexual abuse: Interview with The HEAL Project founder Ignacio Rivera.
“Our society’s view on sex is important to understanding, preventing and dealing with child sexual abuse. We live in a hyper-sexual society that exposes sexual imagery but does not talk about it. Sex education in public schools has almost been…
“The Jump” into Black boy freedom: An interview with filmmaker Eric Lockley.
Eric Lockley is an award-winning artist and media maker invested in writing, producing, and acting in work that inspires people of color to embrace possibility and move beyond surviving into thriving. Current projects include award-winning inspirational short film The Jump and his…
On Black Satire and Why “You Just Gotta Fuck With Our Blackness”: An Interview with BOK TV Creator Alex Ubokudom.
A few months ago, I was invited to join a panel discussion on race, police brutality, and the various ways anti-Blackness permeates within the Black community for a new sketch comedy web-series, BOK TV. Those being such heavy topics, it was fascinating to see how…
There Are So Many Ways For One To Be Remembered: An Interview with ‘Is’nana the Were-Spider’ Creator Greg Anderson-Elysee.
By Hari Ziyad Gregory Anderson-Elysee is a Haitian-American filmmaker, director, writer and model, and has been involved in the arts since he was a child. He is currently in the process of publishing a comic series revolving around characters from…
Whom We Decide To Lay With And Love Is Political: An Interview With “No Fats, No Femmes” Director Jamal T. Lewis.
What does it mean to be "attracted” to someone? What does it mean to find a person desirable? With whom do we want to have sex and why? How do we know a person is beautiful? Are our attractions unchangeable and…
Not Another Trans Murder Story: A Review of dream hampton’s ‘Treasure’
I like to think of myself as a storyteller, but I have never quite figured out how to tell a murder story. 2015 is the deadliest year for transgender women on record, with 22 murdered so far that we know –…
Thousands of Facebook Profiles Went Black This Past Weekend, Here’s Why.
This past weekend, thousands of Facebook users deactivated their accounts in protest of what they feel are the social networking site’s failures to properly address issues of race and racism on the platform. The blackout was organized by Kinfolk Kollective’s La…
Choosing Queer: I Was Not Born This Way, And That’s Ok.
By Hari Ziyad I don’t remember the first time I found a boy attractive. I do know that in my earliest memories, when I was 4 or 5, this attraction felt natural and innate. I know, too, that there was…
