For KnightBlog, I wrote about the old independent film center Alliance Cinema (South Beach), my first encounter with Javier Bardem and its connection to Queer Screens: LGBTQ Film Series, a new film series co-presented by Reading Queer and O Cinema. It was a difficult, but formative period of my life. The Alliance Cinema made coming [...]
I interviewed Aryah Lester for Knight Blog. Here's an excerpt: "Aryah Lester is a force for change, breaking down the barriers to acceptance faced by transgender and gender nonconforming people. With her fierce dedication to art and advocacy, she is methodically melting away our society’s stifling and deadly obsession with conformity. Change isn’t easy, and [...]
Reading Queer in collaboration with O Cinema, Pridelines, Aqua Foundation, Miami Jewish Film Festival and the MIFO LGBT Film Festival present the academy awarding winning film MILK in honor of the victims of the Orlando attack. 100% of all funds collected will be donated directly to the Equality Florida fund. Buy tickets > here http://www.o-cinema.org/event/milk/ Thursday, [...]
It's no secret. Demographics skew white in Central and north Florida. In Okahumpka, FL there's a Shell gas station run by a family of three. The quintessential America dream. I bought a Sprite and Pepto Bismol. The quintessential American road trip necessities. When we jump back on the Turnpike, we pass a row of billboards: [...]
I've heard about this mythical town. And it's real. Not make believe. Celebration, Florida, home to Stetson University, is Stepford Wives-landia. Everything on the outside is immaculate. Even the squirrels are well-groomed and courteous.
Central Florida is famous for pro-life billboards. Here's a series that ends with a Grade A beef billboard just south of Okeechobee, FL.
Leaving Miami isn't easy. It's the little things that slow you down. Like lemon and blueberry scones & breakfast burritos. And the heat.
Tomorrow we head to Tallahassee, FL (on a creative road tip of sorts) for the MANCC Artist/Writer Convening at FSU where writers and choreographers will convene to explore the generative possibilities of working together. This, I like. I'm excited. I've never participated in a think-tank or had the luxury to spend two days talking [...]
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