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Author, poet, and activist Cleo Wade's work provided an oasis of calm and reason on the internet long before the pandemic hit, but it felt especially necessary in 2020. Drawing on themes of self-worth and community, and often posted to Instagram in her signature block-letter handwriting, Wade's viral poetry weaves powerful messages within a few brief lines. Her work has not only reintroduced poetry to a new generation but also encouraged countless people to "expand instead of shrink," as she puts it, in the face of self-doubt and rejection.
With her most recent project, a captivating episode of Adobe's Create Change series called "Create Community," Wade and celebrated art curator Destinee Ross-Sutton build upon those themes, discussing the unique challenges Black women and other marginalized communities face in artistic fields and what makes the next generation of creatives so exciting. We spoke with the...
Author, poet, and activist Cleo Wade's work provided an oasis of calm and reason on the internet long before the pandemic hit, but it felt especially necessary in 2020. Drawing on themes of self-worth and community, and often posted to Instagram in her signature block-letter handwriting, Wade's viral poetry weaves powerful messages within a few brief lines. Her work has not only reintroduced poetry to a new generation but also encouraged countless people to "expand instead of shrink," as she puts it, in the face of self-doubt and rejection.
With her most recent project, a captivating episode of Adobe's Create Change series called "Create Community," Wade and celebrated art curator Destinee Ross-Sutton build upon those themes, discussing the unique challenges Black women and other marginalized communities face in artistic fields and what makes the next generation of creatives so exciting. We spoke with the...
- 12/22/2020
- by Lisa Peterson
- Popsugar.com
Steven Spielberg’s “The Color Purple” celebrates its 35th anniversary this year. The film remains a cultural touchstone for African American women, due in large part to its depiction of female relationships as a form of sanctuary, in a patriarchal world filled with violence. When it was released, it shattered the widespread cultural resistance to talking openly about domestic abuse.
“The Color Purple” draws from Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, which spans 40 years in the turbulent life of Celie, a young black woman in the early 20th-century American South. The film chronicles her abuse at the hands of her stepfather and equally cruel husband, her struggles with poverty, racism, and sexual savagery, and her perseverance as she forges intimate relationships with other women. And despite controversy around its depictions of the black family, especially black men, and criticism that Spielberg turned Walker’s complex novel into simplified broad entertainment,...
“The Color Purple” draws from Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, which spans 40 years in the turbulent life of Celie, a young black woman in the early 20th-century American South. The film chronicles her abuse at the hands of her stepfather and equally cruel husband, her struggles with poverty, racism, and sexual savagery, and her perseverance as she forges intimate relationships with other women. And despite controversy around its depictions of the black family, especially black men, and criticism that Spielberg turned Walker’s complex novel into simplified broad entertainment,...
- 4/3/2020
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
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