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‘Black is King’ | Beyoncé reverses colonial stereotypes and shows Black Americans’ broken dreams
One year after the release of the remake of The Lion King (Jon Favreau, 2019), Disney and Parkwood Entertainment have recently released Beyoncé’s new visual album, Black is King…
‘Dancing at Dusk’ | 38 dancers from 14 African countries restage Pina Bausch’s ‘The Rite of Spring’
A beach of white sand. The light bleaching from the sky. A girl lying on a red cloth. An eerie bassoon piercing the silence. This is the way in which audiences get their first gl..
‘Black Venus’ is the film exposing the ruthlessness of the colonial gaze
Born on 29th December 1789, she was called the Hottentot Venus, but her name was Sawtche, better known as Saartjie Baartman. Object of all kind of fantasies and imagination due t..
‘Too black to be French’ | Reuniting blackness in Frenchness
Being a woman in a world moulded according to the white man’s image has always been difficult for every female fellow. However, being a black or mixed woman in a western universe..
Watch Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984-1992
Audre Lorde – the Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 documents Audre Lorde’s influence on the German political and cultural scene during a decade of profound social change, a decade that ..