Date: 9/2/2009
Time: 8pm (est)
Show: Sippin On Ink
Guest: Fiona Zedde
Call-in Number: (646) 378-0402
Fiona Zedde
Join host Kat Williams as she talks with Fiona Zedde, author of Bliss, A Taste of Sin, Every Dark Desire, and Hungry For It.
National Black Lesbian Survey
Zuna Institute would like to request your participation in a national survey of the black lesbian community. The survey examines the attitudes, needs, and priorities of black lesbians and will take less than 10 minutes to complete. All of your answers will be completely anonymous.
As the LGBT movement gains momentum around the country, it’s important to ensure that the perspectives and priorities of black lesbians are represented. Unfortunately, little data currently exists to help us gain insight into the experience of the community. That’s why your participation in this survey today is incredibly important.
After you have completed the survey, Zuna strongly encourages you to forward this on to other black lesbians so that their perspectives can be captured as well.
The data captured will assist program managers, organizations, and policy makers alike in developing strategies to best serve the community. Zuna Institute has partnered with Synergy Strategy Group to conduct this study.
If you have questions about the survey, please email survey@zunainstitute.org
August 19-20, 2009
Dirty Little Black Girls
Directed by Michael Goldfried
Featuring: Aixa Kendrick*, Gail Merzer Behrens*, Jennifer Fouche, LaTonia Phipps*, and Ngozi Anyanwu*
*Appears courtesy of Actors Equity Association
StoryCorps Listening Salon @ 7PM
Performance @ 730PM
Talk back hosts!
8/19: Elmo Terry-Morgan
Artistic Director, Rites and Reason Theater, Brown University
8/20: TBA
Fire! New Play Play Festival 2009
Produced by Freedom Train Productions
138 S. Oxford Street
BAM Cultural District in Fort Greene, Brooklyn
About the New Work
Uncover the darkest desires of the purest of hearts. Meet the women who mourn and clean around the skeletons in the closet. Dirty Little Black Girls explores race, sex, class, and homophobia by looking at the lives of three domestic workers of color.
GENDER OUTLAWS: THE NEXT GENERATION
Kate Bornstein & S Bear Bergman, eds
Deadline:1 September 2009
Project overview:
in the fifteen years since the release of Gender outlaw, transgender
narratives have made their way into cultural locations from
the margins to the mainstream and back again. today’s trannies and
other sex/gender radicals are writing a radically new world
into being. GenDer outlaws: tHe neXt Generation (seal Press) will
collect and contextualize the work of this generation’s most
forward-thinking trans/genderqueer voices—new voices from the stage, on the streets, in the workplace, in the bedroom, and on
the pages and websites of the world’s most respected mainstream news sources. edited by that ol’ original Gender outlaw herself,
Kate bornstein and writer, raconteur, and theater artist s. bear
bergman, GenDer outlaws: tHe neXt Generation will include
essays, commentary, comic art and conversation from a diverse a group of trans-spectrum people who live and believe in barrier-breaking lives.
AUGUST 12 & 13, 2009 @ 730PM
WOMAN TO WOMAN
Black women loving black women is a revolutionary act.
by Ayanna Maia
138 South Oxford Street
BAM Cultural District in Fort Greene
$5 Suggested Donation
ABOUT THE NEW WORK
Directed by Mekeva McNeil
Featuring: Rashida Bryant, Duane Cooper, Suzanne Darrell, DRED Gerestant, Kari Hinkson, Jonathan Payne, and Khiry Walker
Woman to Woman is a comedic drama about black women shape-shifters and love. Two creative lovers, a voluptuous actress and a happily retired drag king, are about to face the most challenging time of their relationship. Evonne wants to be a star but whose hiring size is 14 with an attitude on Broadway. Roni wants to settle down, but her past won’t let her. As the comfortable love affair they have wrapped themselves into unravels and clashes with family values, self-image, and dreams of fame, they must decide if playing the part is worth the risk.
TALK BACK HOSTS
8/12: Clairesa Clay, Filmmaker, and
Dr. Wendi Williams, Professor of Counseling, Long Island University
8/13: Robbie McCauley
Theater Professor, Emerson College, and Obie Award Winning Playwright of Sally’s Rape
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
Produced by Freedom Train Productions, FIRE! New Play Festival 2009 presents new political theatre featuring black queer protagonists. The work collectively covers a spectrum of human struggle and culture. Major funders include The Union Square Arts Awards, a project of the Tides Foundation, Stonewall Community Foundation, and S/HEROES FOR THE FUTURE.
Does Your Mama Know–the first book published by Redbone Press is being re-released in 2009 and has 16 new essays added to it. Here’s a 2005 interview with publisher and editor Lisa Moore talking about the original DYMK, how it led to Redbone Press, and other titles on her list.
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