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For several months friends kept telling me to watch Pose, a television show that centers on the drag ball culture in New York during the eighties. Most of the people who recommended it told me it was a lot like Paris Is Burning, a 1991 …

              Why Pose Is Such An Important Television Breakthrough             For several months friends kept telling me to watch Pose, a television show that centers on the drag ball culture in New York during the eighties.  Most of the people who recommended it told me …

Who Chooses The Rulers They’re still complaining about the Game of Thrones in my family.  In my observation, they’re downright bitter.  I watched the series too, not from the very beginning the way they did; but I picked up later.  I wanted to see what …

A few years before my mother died in 2001, I was visiting her for her birthday. She told me that since it was her eightieth birthday, she was going out to eat with her friend that afternoon.  She pronounced the name of her friend; it …

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They Say Write About What You Know I first read Toni Morrison’s work in the early seventies.  I think the first book I read written by her was The Bluest Eye. I read it twice in succession, because it was one of the first books …