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 documentary that highlighted gay and transgender contestants most often black, and Latino, as they competed […]
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 it was a lot like Paris Is Burning, a 1991 documentary that highlighted gay and […]
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 all the fuss was about. I had to admit it held my interest from the […]
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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 that I read which cast a new light on a particular human experience dealing with […]
Francine Rodriguez has written a very compelling novel about one woman’s journey through her largely difficult life. A Woman Like Me follows Genie, a transgender woman, as she tells her troubling life story full of hardships. The story starts with a boy growing up in Thailand and ends with a woman on the run in L.A. What life choices have taken her […]