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hussyknee · 1 year ago

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17/12/23 this masterlist has been completely revamped with free access to all material. It will be updated and edited periodically so please click on my username and reblog the current version directly from me if you're able.

14/8/24 reboosting this post with How to Help Palestine updated. Please scroll to the bottom to donate or boost the links.

The Big Damn List Of Stuff They Said You Didn't Know

(Yes, it's a lot. Just choose your preferred medium and then pick one.)

Podcasts

Backgrounders and Quick Facts

Interactive Maps

Teach-Out Resources

Reading Material (free)

Films and Documentaries (free)

Non-Governmental Organizations

Social Media

How You Can Help <- URGENT!!!

Podcasts

Cocktails & Capitalism: The Story of Palestine Part 1, Part 3

It Could Happen Here: The Cheapest Land is Bought with Blood, Part 2, The Balfour Declaration

Citations Needed: Media narratives and consent manufacturing around Israel-Palestine and the Gaza Siege

The Deprogram: Free Palestine, ft. decolonizatepalestine.com.

Backgrounders and Quick Facts

The Palestine Academy: Palestine 101

Institute for Middle East Understanding: Explainers and Quick Facts

Interactive Maps

Visualizing Palestine

Teach-Out Resources

1) Cambridge UCU and Pal Society

Palestine 101

Intro to Palestine Film + Art + Literature

Resources for Organising and Facilitating)

2) The Jadaliya YouTube Channel of the Arab Studies Institute

Gaza in Context Teach-in series

War on Palestine podcast

Updates and Discussions of news with co-editors Noura Erakat and Mouin Rabbani.

3) The Palestine Directory

History (virtual tours, digital archives, The Palestine Oral History Project, Documenting Palestine, Queering Palestine)

Cultural History (Palestine Open Maps, Overdue Books Zine, Palestine Poster Project)

Contemporary Voices in the Arts

Get Involved: NGOs and campaigns to help and support.

3) PalQuest Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question.

4) The Palestine Remix by Al Jazeera

Books and Articles

Free reading material

My Gdrive of Palestine/Decolonization Literature (nearly all the books recommended below + books from other recommended lists)

Five free eBooks by Verso

Three Free eBooks on Palestine by Haymarket

LGBT Activist Scott Long's Google Drive of Palestine Freedom Struggle Resources

Recommended Reading List

Academic Books

Edward Said (1979) The Question of Palestine, Random House

Ilan Pappé (2002)(ed) The Israel/Palestine Question, Routledge

Ilan Pappé (2006) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, OneWorld Publications

Ilan Pappé (2011) The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel, Yale University Press

Ilan Pappé (2015) The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge, Verso Books

Ilan Pappé (2017) The Biggest Prison On Earth: A History Of The Occupied Territories, OneWorld Publications

Ilan Pappé (2022) A History of Modern Palestine, Cambridge University Press

Rosemary Sayigh (2007) The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries, Bloomsbury

Andrew Ross (2019) Stone Men: the Palestinians who Built Israel, Verso Books

Rashid Khalidi (2020) The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance 1917–2017

Ariella Azoulay (2011) From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, Pluto Press

Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir (2012) The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine, Stanford University Press.

Jeff Halper (2010) An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel, Pluto Press

Jeff Halper (2015) War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification

Jeff Halper (2021) Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State, Pluto Press

Anthony Loewenstein (2023) The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the Technology of Occupation around the World

Noura Erakat (2019) Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, Stanford University Press

Neve Gordon (2008) Israel’s Occupation, University of California Press

Joseph Massad (2006) The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians, Routledge

Memoirs

Edward Said (1986) After the Last Sky: Palestine Lives, Columbia University PEdward Saidress

Edward Said (2000) Out of Place; A Memoir, First Vintage Books

Mourid Barghouti (2005) I saw Ramallah, Bloomsbury

Hatim Kanaaneh (2008) A Doctor in Galilee: The Life and Struggle of a Palestinian in Israel, Pluto Press

Raja Shehadeh (2008) Palestinian Walks: Into a Vanishing Landscape, Profile Books

Ghada Karmi (2009) In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story, Verso Books

Vittorio Arrigoni (2010) Gaza Stay Human, Kube Publishing

Ramzy Baroud (2010) My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story, Pluto Press

Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011) I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity, Bloomsbury

Atef Abu Saif (2015) The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary, Beacon Press

Anthologies

Voices from Gaza - Insaniyyat (The Society of Palestinian Anthropologists)

Letters From Gaza • Protean Magazine

Salma Khadra Jayyusi (1992) Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature, Columbia University Press

ASHTAR Theatre (2010) The Gaza Monologues

Refaat Alreer (ed) (2014) Gaza Writes Back, Just World Books

Refaat Alreer, Laila El-Haddad (eds) (2015) Gaza Unsilenced, Just World Books

Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke (eds)(2015) Palestine Speaks: Narrative of Life under Occupation, Verso Books

Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing (eds) (2022) Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, Haymarket Books

Short Story Collections

Ghassan Kanafani, Hilary Kilpatrick (trans) (1968) Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories, Lynne Rienner Publishers

Ghassan Kanafani, Barbara Harlow, Karen E. Riley (trans) (2000) Palestine’s Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories, Lynne Rienner Publishers

Atef Abu Saif (2014) The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction, Comma Press

Samira Azzam, Ranya Abdelrahman (trans) (2022) Out Of Time: The Collected Short Stories of Samira Azzam

Sonia Sulaiman (2023) Muneera and the Moon; Stories Inspired by Palestinian Folklore

Essay Collections

Edward W. Said (2000) Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, Harvard University Press

Salim Tamari (2008) Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture, University of California Press

Fatma Kassem (2011) Palestinian Women: Narratives, histories and gendered memory, Bloombsbury

Ramzy Baroud (2019) These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons, Clarity Press

Novels

Sahar Khalifeh (1976) Wild Thorns, Saqi Books

Liyana Badr (1993) A Balcony over the Fakihani, Interlink Books

Hala Alyan (2017) Salt Houses, Harper Books

Susan Abulhawa (2011) Mornings in Jenin, Bloomsbury

Susan Abulhawa (2020) Against the Loveless World, Bloomsbury

Graphic novels

Joe Sacco (2001) Palestine

Joe Sacco (2010) Footnotes in Gaza

Naji al-Ali (2009) A Child in Palestine, Verso Books

Mohammad Sabaaneh (2021) Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine, Street Noise Book*

Poetry

Fady Joudah (2008) The Earth in the Attic, Sheridan Books,

Ghassan Zaqtan, Fady Joudah (trans) (2012) Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me and Other Poems, Yale University Press

Hala Alyan (2013) Atrium: Poems, Three Rooms Press*

Mohammed El-Kurd (2021) Rifqa, Haymarket Books

Mosab Abu Toha (2022) Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza, City Lights Publishers

Tawfiq Zayyad (2023) We Are Here to Stay, Smokestack Books*

The Works of Mahmoud Darwish

Poems

Rafeef Ziadah (2011) We Teach Life, Sir

Nasser Rabah (2022) In the Endless War

Refaat Alareer (2011) If I Must Die

Hiba Abu Nada (2023) I Grant You Refuge/ Not Just Passing

[All books except the ones starred are available in my gdrive. I'm adding more each day. But please try and buy whatever you're able or borrow from the library. Most should be available in the discounted Free Palestine Reading List by Pluto Press, Verso and Haymarket Books.]

Human Rights Reports & Documents

Information on current International Court of Justice case on ‘Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem’

UN Commission of Inquiry Report 2022

UN Special Rapporteur Report on Apartheid 2022

Amnesty International Report on Apartheid 2022

Human Rights Watch Report on Apartheid 2021

Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’ 2009 (‘The Goldstone Report’)

Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, International Court of Justice, 9 July 2004

Films

Documentaries

Jenin, Jenin (2003) dir. Mohammed Bakri

Massacre (2005) dir. Monica Borgmann, Lokman Slim, Hermann Theissen

Slingshot HipHop (2008) dir. Jackie Reem Salloum

Waltz with Bashir (2008) dir. Ari Folman † (also on Amazon Prime)

Tears of Gaza (2010) dir. Vibeke Løkkeberg (also on Amazon Prime)

5 Broken Cameras (2011) dir. Emad Burnat (also on Amazon Prime)

The Gatekeepers (2012) dir. Dror Moreh (also on Amazon Prime)

The Great Book Robbery (2012) | Al Jazeera English

Al Nakba (2013) | Al Jazeera (5-episode docu-series)

The Village Under the Forest (2013) dir. Mark J. Kaplan

Where Should The Birds Fly (2013) dir. Fida Qishta

Naila and the Uprising (2017) (also on Amazon Prime)

GAZA (2019) dir. Andrew McConnell and Garry Keane

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019) dir. Abby Martin

Little Palestine: Diary Of A Siege (2021) dir. Abdallah Al Khatib

Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story (2021) | Al Jazeera World Documentary

Gaza Fights Back (2021) | MintPress News Original Documentary | dir. Dan Cohen

Innocence (2022) dir. Guy Davidi

Short Films

Fatenah (2009) dir. Ahmad Habash

Gaza-London (2009) dir. Dina Hamdan

Condom Lead (2013) dir. Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser

OBAIDA (2019) | Defence for Children Palestine

Theatrical Films

Divine Intervention (2002) | dir. Elia Suleiman (also on Netflix)

Paradise Now (2005) dir Hany Abu-Assad (also on Amazon Prime)

Lemon Tree (2008) (choose auto translate for English subs) (also on Amazon Prime)

It Must Be Heaven (2009) | dir. Elia Suleiman †

The Promise (2010) mini-series dir. Peter Kosminsky (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)

Habibi (2011)* dir. Susan Youssef

Omar (2013)* dir. Hany Abu-Assad †

3000 Nights (2015)* dir. Mai Masri

Foxtrot (2017) dir. Samuel Maoz (also on Amazon Prime)

The Time that Remains (2019) dir. Elia Suleiman †

Gaza Mon Amour (2020) dir. Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser †

The Viewing Booth (2020) dir. Ra'anan Alexandrowicz (on Amazon Prime and Apple TV)

Farha (2021)* | dir. Darin J. Sallam

Palestine Film Institute Archive

All links are for free viewing. The ones marked with a star (*) can be found on Netflix, while the ones marked † can be downloaded for free from my Mega account.

If you find Guy Davidi's Innocence anywhere please let me know, I can't find it for streaming or download even to rent or buy.

In 2018, BDS urged Netflix to dump Fauda, a series created by former members of IOF death squads that legitimizes and promotes racist violence and war crimes, to no avail. Please warn others to not give this series any views. BDS has not called for a boycott of Netflix. ]

NGOs

The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement

Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor

UNRWA

Palestine Defence for Children International

Palestinian Feminist Collective

Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network

Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association

Institute for Palestine Studies

Al Haq

Artists for Palestine

The Palestine Museum

Jewish Currents

B’Tselem

DAWN

Social Media

Palestnians on Tumblr

@el-shab-hussein

@killyfromblame

@apollos-olives

@fairuzfan

@palipunk

@sar-soor

@nabulsi

@wearenotjustnumbers2

@90-ghost

@tamarrud

@northgazaupdates

Allies and advocates (not Palestinian)

@bloglikeanegyptian beautiful posts that read like op-eds

@vyorei daily news roundups

@luthienne resistance through prose

@decolonize-the-left scoop on the US political plans and impacts

@feluka

@anneemay

(Please don't expect any of these blogs to be completely devoted to Palestine allyship; they do post regularly about it but they're still personal blogs and post whatever else they feel like. Do not harrass them.)

Gaza journalists

Motaz Azaiza IG: @motaz_azaiza | Twitter: @azaizamotaz9 | TikTok: _motaz.azaiza (left Gaza as of Jan 23)

Bisan Owda IG and TikTok: wizard_bisan1 | Twitter: @wizardbisan

Saleh Aljafarawi IG: @saleh_aljafarawi | Twitter: @S_Aljafarawi | TikTok: @saleh_aljafarawi97

Plestia Alaqad IG: @byplestia | TikTok: @plestiaaqad (left Gaza)

Wael Al-Dahdouh IG: @wael_eldahdouh | Twitter: @WaelDahdouh (left Gaza as of Jan 13)

Hind Khoudary IG: @hindkhoudary | Twitter: @Hind_Gaza

Ismail Jood IG and TikTok: @ismail.jood (announced end of coverage on Jan 25)

Yara Eid IG: @eid_yara | Twitter: @yaraeid_

Eye on Palestine IG: @eye.on.palestine | Twitter: @EyeonPalestine | TikTok: @eyes.on.palestine

Muhammad Shehada Twitter: @muhammadshehad2

(Edit: even though some journos have evacuated, the footage up to the end of their reporting is up on their social media, and they're also doing urgent fundraisers to get their families and friends to safety. Please donate or share their posts.)

News organisations

The Electronic Intifada Twitter: @intifada | IG: @electronicintifada

Quds News Network Twitter and Telegram: @QudsNen | IG: @qudsn (Arabic)

Times of Gaza IG: @timesofgaza | Twitter: @Timesofgaza | Telegram: @TIMESOFGAZA

The Palestine Chronicle Twitter: @PalestineChron | IG: @palestinechron | @palestinechronicle

Al-Jazeera Twitter: @AJEnglish | IG and TikTok: @aljazeeraenglish, @ajplus

Middle East Eye IG and TikTok: @middleeasteye | Twitter: @MiddleEastEye

Democracy Now Twitter and IG: @democracynow TikTok: @democracynow.org

Mondoweiss IG and TikTok: @mondoweiss | Twitter: @Mondoweiss

The Intercept Twitter and IG: @theintercept

MintPress Twitter: @MintPressNews | IG: mintpress

Novara Media Twitter and IG: @novaramedia

Truthout Twitter and IG: @truthout

Noura Erakat: Legal scholar, human rights attorney, specialising in Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Twitter: @4noura | IG: @nouraerakat | (http://www.nouraerakat.com/)

Palestnians on Other Social Media

Taleed El Sabawi: Assistant professor of law and researcher in public health. Twitter: @el_sabawi | IG

Hebh Jamal: Journalist in Germany. IG and Twitter: @hebh_jamal

Lexi Alexander: Filmmaker and activist. Twitter: @LexiAlex | IG: @lexialexander1

Mariam Barghouti: Writer, blogger, researcher, and journalist. Twitter: @MariamBarghouti | IG: @mariambarghouti

Rasha Abdulhadi: Queer poet, author and cultural organizer. Twitter: @rashaabdulhadi

Mohammed el-Kurd: Writer and activist from Jerusalem. IG: @mohammedelkurd | Twitter: @m7mdkurd

Ramy Abdu: Founder and Chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. Twitter: @RamyAbdu

‼️How You Can Help Palestine‼️

Subhi: Founder of The Palestine Academy website. IG: @sbeih.jpg |TikTok @iamsbeih | Twitter: @iamsbeih

Click for Palestine (Please reblog!!)

Masterlist of donation links by @sulfurcosmos (Please reblog!!)

Water for Gaza: Donate directly to the Gaza Municipality

Gazafunds (vetted and spotlighted GFMs)

The Butterfly Effect Project (spreadsheet of vetted GFMs)

Operation Olive Branch Linktree for vetted fundraisers, donations and political action resources. TikTok and Instagram: @operationolivebranch | Twitter: @OPOliveBranch

Spreadsheet of Gaza fundraisers vetted by @el-shab-hussein and @nabulsi

Political action to pressure the Harris campaign to stop arming Israel (for US citizens): Uncommitted Movement (TikTok: @uncommittedmvmt) (Please reblog!!)

If any links are broken let me know. Or pull up the current post to check whether it's fixed.

"Knowledge is Israel's worst enemy. Awareness is Israel's most hated and feared foe. That's why Israel bombs a university: it wants to kill openness and determination to refuse living under injustice and racism."

— Dr. Refaat Alareer, (martyred Dec 6, 2023)

From River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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Edit 1: took the first video down because turns out the animator is a terf and it links to her blog. Really sorry for any distress.

Edit 2: All recommended readings + Haymarket recommendations + essential decolonization texts have been uploaded to my linked gdrive. I will adding more periodically. Please do buy or check them out from the library if possible, but this post was made for and by poor and gatekept Global South bitches like me.

Some have complained about the memes being disrespectful. You're actually legally obligated to make fun of Israeli propaganda and Zionists. I don't make the rules.

Edit 3: "The river to the sea" does not mean the expulsion of Jews from Palestine. Believing that is genocide apologia.

Edit 4: Gazans have specifically asked us to put every effort into pushing for a ceasefire instead of donations. "Raising humanitarian aid" is a grift Western governments are pushing right now to deflect from the fact that they're sending billions to Israel to keep carpet bombing Gazans. As long as the blockades are still in place there will never be enough aid for two million people. (UPDATE: PLEASE DONATE to the Gazan's GoFundMe fundraisers to help them buy food and get out of Rafah into Egypt. E-SIMs, food and medical supplies are also essential. Please donate to the orgs linked in the How You Can Help. Go on the strikes. DO NOT STOP PROTESTING.)

Edit 5: Google drive link for academic books folder has been fixed. Also have added a ton of resources to all the other folders so please check them out.

Edit 6: Added interactive maps, Jadaliya channel, and masterlists of donation links and protest support and of factsheets.

The twitter accounts I reposted as it was given to me and I just now realized it had too many Israeli voices and almost none of the Palestinians I'm following, so it's being edited. (Update: done!) also removed sources like Jewish Voices of Peace and Breaking the Silence that do good work but have come under fair criticism from Palestinians.

Edit 7: Complete reformatting

Edit 8: Complete revamping of the social media section. It now reflects my own following list.

Edit 9: removed some more problematic people from the allies list. Remember that the 2SS is a grift that's used to normalize violence and occupation, kids. Supporting the one-state solution is lowest possible bar for allyship. It's "Free Palestine" not "Free half of Palestine and hope Israel doesn't go right back to killing them".

Edit 10: added The Palestine Directory + Al Jazeera documentary + Addameer. This "100 links per post" thing sucks.

Edit 11: more documentaries and films

Edit 12: reformatted reading list

Edit 13: had to remove @palipunk's masterlist to add another podcast. It's their pinned post and has more resources Palestinian culture and crafts if you want to check it out

Edit 14 6th May '24: I've stopped updating this masterlist so some things, like journalists still left in Gaza and how to support the student protests are missing. I've had to take a step back and am no longer able to track these things down on my own, and I've hit the '100 links per post' limit, but if you can leave suggestions for updates along with links in either the replies or my asks I will try and add them.

Edit 15 10th August: added to Palestinian allies list and reworked the Help for Palestine section. There's been a racist harrassment campaign against the Palestinian Tumblrs that vetted the Gaza fundraisers based off one mistake made by a Gazan who doesn't understand English. If you're an ally, shut that shit down. Even if you donate to a scam GFM, you're only out some coffee money; if everyone stops donating to all the GFMs in fear of scams, those families die.

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cuntrytaylor · 12 days ago

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i'm putting together a resume/cv for grad school applications and it's so funny to see all my qualifications put together like hm yeah maybe i do have a fighting chance of being accepted

#most of the time im like. ive done nothing of consequence with my life im so far behind #but seeing everything together im like. ok work girl #like. graduated top of my class from a top 10-15ish school in the usa / won a big scholarship 3/5 years / was student council president #/ admitted to an honor society / work published in two magazines / work exhibited in a museum for like a day / 4 architecture internships #one LGBT archive internship / arts initiative event volunteer for 5 yrs / won the grand prize in the only design competition i entered #and then after graduation got a job as a designer for schools and hospitals / wrote and passed 7 intense architecture exams #got my architecture licence two years after graduation and first in my graduating class to do so / spoke at a panel / got a promotion #am currently doing two research projects / and was selected to be on a team at work to design a very important kinda confidential project #<<< a team they keep reminding us was carefully selected to be made up of the best people in the firm kinda #NOT TO BRAG im just losing my mind how do i still feel like ive done nothing most of the time #((the answer to that is: my brother went to yale and majored in astrophysics and film and spanish on a full ride graduated with one of #the highest gpas in our province graduated college w a 4.0 (i only had 3.9 major/3.83 total) and works as an assistant to 5 ceos at a film #production company while writing and trying to sell his first screenplay. also my parents never really say they are proud of me lmao))

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emma-dennehy-presents · 2 years ago

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Celebrating Black Queer Icons:

Tourmaline

Tourmaline (formerly known/credited as Reian Gossett)is a trans woman that actively identifies as queer, and is best known for her work in trans activism and economic justice. Tourmaline was born July 20, 1983, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Tourmaline's mother was a feminist and union organizer, her father a self defense instructor and anti-imprisonment advocate. Growing up in this atmosphere allowed Tourmaline to explore her identity and encouraged her to fight in what she believes in. Tourmaline has earned a BA in Comparative Ethnic Studies, from Colombia University. During her time at Colombia U, Tourmaline taught creative writing courses to inmates at Riker's Island Correctional Institute, through a school program known as Island Academy. Tourmaline has worked with many groups and organizations in her pursuit of justice. She served as the Membership Coordinator for Queers For Economic Justice, Director of Membership at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and as a Featured Speaker for GLAAD. Tourmaline also works as a historian and archivist for drag queens and trans people associated with the 1969 Stonewall Inn Uprising. She started doing this after noticing how little trans material was being archived, saying that what little did get archived was done so accidentally. In 2010 Tourmaline began her work in film by gathering oral histories from queer New Yorkers for Kagendo Murungi's Taking Freedom Home. In 2016 Tourmaline directed her first film The Personal Things, which featured trans elder Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. For the film Tourmaline was awarded the 2017 Queer Art Prize. Tourmaline served as the Assistant Director to Dee Rees on the Golden Globe nominated historical drama, Mudbound. Tourmaline has co produced two projects with fellow filmmaker and activist Sasha Wortzel. The first was STAR People Are Beautiful, about the work of Sylvia Rivera and Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries. The second was Happy Birthday, Marsha, about Marsha P Johnson. Happy Birthday, Marsha had all trans roles played by trans actors. Tourmaline's work is featured or archived in several major museums and galleries. In 2017 her work was featured in New Museum's exhibit Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. In 2020 the Museum of Modern Art acquired Tourmaline's 2019 film Salacia, a project about Mary Jones. In 2021 the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired two of Tourmaline's works for display in Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room. Tourmaline is also the sibling of:

Che Gossett

Che Gossett is a nonbinary, trans femme writer and archivist. Gossett specializes in queer/trans studies, aesthetic theory, abolitionist thought and black study. Gossett received a Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies, from Rutgers University, in 2021. They have also received a BA in African American Studies from Morehouse college, a MAT in Social Studios from Brown University, and a MA in History from the University of Pennsylvania. Gossett has held a fellowship at Yale, and currently holds fellowships at Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge. Gossett's writing has been published in a number of anthologies and they have lectured and performed at several museums and galleries of note, including the Museum of Modern Art and A.I.R. Gallery. Gossett is currently working on finishing a political biography of queer Japanese-American AIDS activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya.

I originally intended to do separate profiles for Che Gossett Tourmaline, but could not find sufficient information about Che Gossett, beyond their credentials and current academic activity. That means that this will be the last of these write ups for a bit. I plan on picking it back up in October for the US's LGBT History Month and UK's Black History month. With time to plan ahead and research more I hope to diversify my list geographically and improve formatting. I plan on starting to include cis icons as well, like Rustin Bayard. If you come across this or any other of these posts Ive made this month I would love feedback and suggestions for figures you would like to see covered.

#celebrating black queer icons #black history #black history month #black history is queer history #black history is american history #queer history #tourmaline #che gossett #trans film #trans history #stonewall inn #stonewall uprising #stonewall riots #queer #lgbtq #trans #transgender #nonbinary

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broadwaydivastournament · 9 months ago

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Broadway Divas Tournament: Round 2A

Jayne Houdyshell (1953) "JAYNE HOUDYSHELL (Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn). Broadway: King Lear; A Doll's House, Part 2 (2017 Tony nomination); The Humans (2016 Tony Award); Fish in the Dark; Dead Accounts; Romeo and Juliet; Follies (2012 Tony nomination); The Importance of Being Earnest; Bye Bye Birdie; Wicked; Well (2006 Tony nomination and Theatre World Award). Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Theater: The New Century; Playwrights Horizons: The Pain and the Itch; The Public Theater: Well; Roundabout Theatre Company: The Language Archive; MCC: Relevance; Manhattan Theatre Club: The Receptionist; Shakespeare in the Park: Much Ado About Nothing. Jayne has received two Drama Desk Awards, two Obies, and the Lily Award. Regional credits include classical and modern plays at Yale Repertory Theatre, MacCarter Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arena Stage, Alabama Shakespeare Festival and many others. Film: The Humans, Little Women, The Chaperone, Everybody's Fine, Changing Lanes, Garden State. Television: "Only Murders in the Building," "The Good Fight," "Evil," "Law & Order: SVU," "Elementary," "Blue Bloods."" - Playbill bio from The Music Man, February 2022

Stephanie J. Block (1972) "STEPHANIE J. BLOCK (The Baker's Wife) Broadway: The Cher Show (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award winner), Falsettos (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Tony, Drama Desk nominations), Anything Goes, 9 to 5: The Musical (Drama Desk nomination), The Pirate Queen, The Boy from Oz, Wicked. Off-Broadway: Brigadoon (Encores); Little Miss Sunshine (Drama Desk nomination); By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Drama Desk nomination). Film and television: "iMorcecai," "Bluff City Law," Rise, "Madam Secretary," "Orange is the New Black," "Homeland," "It Could Be Worse," "Stephanie J. Block Live From Lincoln Center" for Great Performances on PBS. She currently co-hosts and co-produces "Stages Podcast" with Marylee Fairbanks and can be accessed wherever you get your podcasts. Twitter and Instagram: @stephaniejblock." - Playbill bio from Into the Woods, September 2022.

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"Despite her beating out Jan Maxwell, my beloved, I feel no lingering bitterness because Jayne Houdyshell is one of those divine character actresses who elevates every project she's in. Her Music Man nomination came as a wild surprise, but looking back, it just makes sense. She was exactly what we needed post-reopening."

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"Once again, I am asking which of you is going to be contributing to the Send DroughtofApathy to London this Summer to See SJB in Kiss Me, Kate Fund? They released a little promo for it, and damn she looks good. Why is everyone going to the West End to do their shows? Do them here so I can see them, dammit. Who needs the West End and their strange tastes anyway?"

#broadwaydivastournament #broadway #broadway divas #tournament poll #jayne houdyshell #stephanie j. block #round 2a

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theyearofhalloween · 2 years ago

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Happy birthday in memoriam to Mr. Vincent Price. The 6’4 star of horror classics such as House on Haunted Hill and The Raven appeared in nearly 200 films and lent his distinctive voice to everything from radio serials and Micheal Jackson’s Thriller to the O.K. Corral exhibit in Tombstone, Arizona. When not thrilling horror

fans, the always-urbane Price studied Art History at Yale, starred in cooking programs, and founded the Vincent Price Gallery in Los Angeles.

“Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you’re awake and not asleep, as you’d grown to suspect you were?” -Vincent L. Price

Visit the Price photo archive on TYoH for more.

#vincent price #vintage #horror #kermit the frog #today in history

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archivyrep · 2 years ago

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Archivists on the Issues: Fictional Archivists Out in the Open [Part 1]

Archivists on the Issues is a forum for archivists to discuss the issues we are facing today. Today’s post comes from Burkely Hermann (me), Metadata Librarian for the National Security Archive and current I&A Blog Coordinator. There will be spoilers for each of the books, animated series, films, and other media he will be discussing. It was published there on March 8, 2023 and will be published on my Wading Through the Cultural Stacks WordPress blog in late September.

Eight archivists-of-sorts in fiction. Top row, from left to right: Archie the Archivist (Regular Show), Jocasta Nu (Star Wars), Sunati (Always Human), Russ (Be Cool, Scooby Doo!). Bottom row from left to right: Unnamed archivist / records clerk (My Dictator Boyfriend), Atropos (Lore Olympus), Clotho (Lore Olympus), and Clark (Joker)

In January 2018, Cate Peebles wrote about examples of archives in popular culture, specifically in true crime documentaries. In her post, on this blog, she argued that archivists are missing in "moments of recognition" and said that representations of actual archivists are "few and far between". She concluded that no popular image of an archivist exists, but that archivists are "more present than ever" even if unseen, adding that "without records and their keepers, there are no stories to tell." In this article, I'd like to highlight some examples of fictional archivists that I've come across through the years, especially since starting my WordPress blog on the subject.

For one, there are some characters who who merge characters of archivists and librarians. This includes a reference librarian who manages a Yale University Library room which combines elements of archives and libraries into one institution in Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) and a character who is almost an archivist, named Archie the Archivist (voiced by John Cygan) in Regular Show. In the latter case, Archie works in a library and becomes a guardian to protect analog data, which could have some parallels to archivists as keepers of information.

Similarly, there's Madame Jocasta Nu in Star Wars, specifically in Attack of the Clones and the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series. She is played by Alethea McGrath in the film and voiced by Flo Di Re in the animated series. Madame Nu is described as a librarian and archivist, but seems to manage a library-archives hybrid known as the Jedi Archives, within the Jedi Temple. She is best-known for declaring, in Attack of the Clones, that "if an item does not appear in our records, it does not exist," an arrogant and untrue statement which ignores reality of archives as memory institutions and their role in society. Madame Nu differs fundamentally from the unnamed librarian in the dark, haunting Thatcher Memorial Library shown in a scene of Citizen Kane (1941). The librarian in the latter has been described as one of the world’s meanest archivists. Played by Georgia Backus, she has her hair tied up in a bun and has "an intimidating stare on her face", acting as a "real dragon lady at the gates of knowledge." This is not the type of archives you want to go to! It is not the image which should be projected.

There are various archivists, of sorts, in other media. For instance, in the webcomic, Always Human, Rae, a friend of the protagonist, Sunati, dreams of becoming an archivist and fulfills this dream during the run of the comic. More directly, an episode of Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!, entitled "Silver Scream", features Russ, a young film archivist who works in a film archive room and is a bit eccentric. Other archivists appear in issues of the popular webcomic Lore Olympus in 1980s style dress, helping characters who request records about their past memories, or in the webcomic My Dictator Boyfriend. In the latter case, the archivist/records clerk is manipulated to write a birth form for the ruler's wife, Anna, even though the son isn't even born! [1]

There are other prominent depictions. For one, there is a records clerk, named Clark (played by by Brian Tyree Henry), who brings out a medical hospital record for Arthur Fleck in Joker (2019). However, Fleck, who later becomes the Joker, steals the record from the clerk because he hasn't filled out the appropriate paperwork to take the file with him. Then there's the well-known depiction of a classy archivist named Abigail Chase (played by Diane Kruger) who appears in National Treasure (2004) and National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007). It is a depiction which has been oft discussed by archivists. Archivists also make an appearance in former webcomics like Power Ballad, and currently running ones like Brimstone and Roses.

There are many more examples, like supposed newspaper archivist (and former newspaper reporter) in the animated series, Stretch Armstrong, who has a newspaper archives in his basement. He declares in one episode, "some say I’m packrat, archivist I say!" Even The Simpsons has a character who runs the Springfield Historical Society, in the episode "Lisa the Iconoclast" which could be called an archivist. Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure, otherwise known as Tangled: The Series, features, along with other archivy themes, a keeper of a museum, known as The Spire, named Calliope (voiced by Natalie Palamides). She is a scholar who does magic tricks and has a messy library. Most recently, a character named Arizal (voiced by Christine Marine Cabanos) is the protagonist of Recorded by Arizal. She puts together vlogs explaining why she wants to be a record keeper, often another name for an archivist.

Continued in part 2

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[1] Hermann, Burkely. "Libraries, records, and Kore: Archives on Mount Olympus." Wading Through the Cultural Stacks, Nov. 28, 2020; Hermann, Burkely. "Popular culture and the duties of archivists." Wading Through the Cultural Stacks, Feb. 27, 2021; Hermann, Burkely. "Evil Anna and How I Learned to Love Archival Manipulation." Wading Through the Cultural Stacks, Apr. 3, 2021.

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Dancing with the Stars

Chapter 1 : Meeting

Harvey Specter, quarterback for the Giants, sees the end of his career approaching. Though he has no idea what the future holds, he decides to follow his agent's advice and participates in Dancing with the Stars to start preparing for his career transition. Initially not very enthusiastic about the idea, he changes his mind the day he sees who his partner will be for the upcoming weeks: Donna Paulsen, the magnificent dancer who captures his heart at first sight. While both of them thought they were just taking part in a TV show, neither of them expected to be so deeply affected by the experience as their encounters spark a real fire inside both of them.

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Although Donna had received the phone call only a week earlier, she hurried to get dressed, leave her Los Angeles rented apartment, and head to the studio 33 where she was scheduled to meet with the various dancers and producers for this year's season. It was her second year participating in Dancing with the Stars, the thirty-fourth season of the show, and last year, the redhead had finished in third place out of fourteen contestants, paired with a new actor from a popular TV series. This time, however, she hoped to aim for first place and win the competition, seeing it as a potential stepping stone for her career. The redhead was now twenty-six years old, and although she had graduated from Yale with a degree in theater, it was in dance where she truly flourished. Still, she hoped one day to land the lead role on Broadway — her ultimate dream. She had started ballet at the age of five, and since then, she had devoted herself body and soul to her passion, as today she was working on various projects, including Dancing with the Stars, which would take up fifteen weeks — exactly the duration of the break from the Broadway show she was currently performing in. As soon as she arrived in front of the studio, she quickly greeted the security guard, showed her invitation, and then headed to where she was expected, crossing paths with one of the other dancers she had worked with the previous year.

« Alma, hey »

« Hey Red, I’m so happy to see you »

« Me too. How are you doing, girl? »

After chatting for a few minutes with the blonde, Donna greeted the other dancers, both old and new, before the twelve contestants gathered around the table, ready to be addressed by the show's producer, who quickly began the kickoff meeting. For nearly an hour, they discussed schedules, filming locations, airing dates, and other show details before finally reaching the moment everyone had been waiting for: the announcement of their dance partners. As the first six contestants were revealed, some well-known and others less so, the redhead looked up when her name was called.

« Donna, this year, you’ll be with Harvey Specter »

« Harvey Specter? » asked the dancer, having never heard that name before.

« Yeah, the Giants quarterback. Football »

A quarterback? Really? She had to deal with an athlete, alright, she would have preferred a singer or dancer, someone who could have had a dance background at least, but an athlete, it was all or nothing. Anyway, while she was trying to find the positive aspects in her new partner, she saw Alma leaning over before hearing her whisper in her ear.

« You lucky girl »

« What? »

« You have no idea who Harvey Specter is? »

« No »

« Are you living in a cave or something? » snorted the blonde.

« Why? Is he that famous? » chuckled Donna.

« Well, famous to the point of being the muse of Calvin Klein and that there are huge posters of him in brief displayed a bit everywhere »

« Excuse me? » whispered the redhead with wide eyes.

« He’s like so hot »

« Yeah? »

« Really hot. Plus, these posters leave no room for imagination »

« Alma » choked Donna as her friend laughed at the situation.

#darvey #fanfic #harvey specter #suits #donna paulsen #sarah rafferty

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This spring, Yale University will offer a course on something that every American household should take: the profound cultural and political impact of Beyoncé. The course, Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition, History, Culture, Theory & Politics Through Music, will open to students next year, diving into the musical giant's cultural significance and "artistic genius.". This module, co-taught by the department of humanities and arts at Yale, tracks the unfolding of Beyoncé from her 2013 self-titled album to her latest effort, Cowboy Carter, the multi-Grammy-nominated country album. The course engages with how the artistry in Beyoncé's music and performances takes on intersections of black intellectual thought, activism, and social issues. J.ébey, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé's latest work, has received 11 Grammy nominations and was recently stated to become the most grammy-nominated artist of all time with a total of 99 such nominations. The album has been significantly well-received critically, and it is testimony to Beyoncé's versatility and influencer in a genre that has been challenging to penetrate for black artists in history. Students in this landmark pop culture course will have a richly academic engagement with Beyoncé's art, drawing on theories from black feminist thought, philosophy, anthropology, and musicology. They'll also look at the works of art history and performance studies to work towards a broader perspective on her impact. Yale describes the course as an opportunity to study "performance politics" by looking at her concert films and live shows, often heavy with social justice and activist sentiment.The class will be taught by Daphne Brooks, a prominent writer, professor, and black studies scholar. Brooks also founded Yale's Black Sound & the Archive Working Group-an inclusive community of scholars in which faculty and students gather together to explore and celebrate the wide-ranging black sound archives. The course that she had spent countless years envisioning while teaching earlier classes at Princeton University came together to form Black Women And Popular Music Culture. This will be the first chance for Brooks to teach a lecture course focused solely on the work of Beyoncé at Yale. Brooks hears Beyoncé's mid-career works like Lemonade, Renaissance, and Cowboy Carter as potently meaningful cultural texts into which personal and collective narratives are inscribed. Through it, Beyoncé frequently touches issues of race, gender, and social justice, making her work especially important for students looking to understand contemporary black feminist discourse and its impacts on the arts. It is promised to both be an adventure of exploring Beyoncé's art and to be an academically rigorous journey into black radical thought. The act of unraveling the themes and symbolism in her work will offer a cultural and intellectual legacy as a black woman artist in mainstream success. Read the full article

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citylifeorg · 4 months ago

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The Met to Present the First Major Exhibition Dedicated to Influential Modernist Architect Paul Rudolph

Paul Rudolph (American, 1918-1997), Perspective section drawing of the Art and Architecture Building, Yale University, New Haven, 1958. Pen and ink, graphite, and plastic film with halftone pattern, on illustration board. 36 7/8 x 53 5/8 x 2 in. (93.6 x 136.2 x 5.1 cm) School of Architecture, Yale University, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. Exhibition Dates: September 30,…

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hollast · 8 months ago

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My Serendipitous Life by Howard E. Fischer from Howard E. Fischer on Vimeo.

Four publications that significantly changed his life • Four segments of his life featuring the number eight (graphically confirmed) • Five events that nearly ended his life • One near-death experience that could have severely changed his life • One event that could have disallowed (precluded, prohibited, blocked) almost all of the above • First Near Death Experience – 1941 • Second Near Death Experience – 1942 • Third Near Death Experience – 1948 • Fourth Near Death Experience – 1950 • Fifth Near Death Experience – 2017 • …plus his near “living death” experience - 2002 Howard E. Fischer - high school and college athlete, lawyer specializing in entertainment and nonprofit law, jazz music concert producer, jazz museum founder and executive director, author of four books plus booklets, newsletters and articles in major publications, founder, publisher and editor of art and antiques newspaper for eight years with no employees, producer of two feature films, producer of 25 music slideshows, producer of seminars on nonprofit laws and operations, radio program producer, records flea markets producer, music artists’ manager, dealer and collector of music memorabilia (mainly jazz records, books, films etc.), mentor to high school students, kidney donor, donor of archival materials and memorabilia to Library of Congress, contributor of music materials (documents, memorabilia) to Harvard and Yale Universities libraries, television appearances, articles and items in numerous publications about him and his activities Back Cover Highlights What is meant by SERENDIPITY and how it relates to his life How four publications totally changed his life How the number “eight” encompassed (formed, ordered, organized) his life How his educational background was instrumental in moving his life in an unlikely direction How interests developed in childhood helped shape his life How a number of unforeseen events could have interrupted or ended his growth. How a number of situations that developed in his life will be preserved forever How his early life may have predicted his future How an early death of an associate may have contributed to one of his careers How this serendipitous event earned him $10,000 How he saved the life of his best friend.

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happyandblack · 9 months ago

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Reading list;

This is a collection of everything I hope to read before the end of my life. Sometimes including links, sometimes not. This will be updated as things are read or dropped.

Physical Texts:

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

They Were Her Property by Stephanie Jones-Rogers

How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Lobbyists: How Influence Peddlers Work Their Way in Washington Jeffrey Birnbaum

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

The Spook Who Sat by the Door by Sam Greenlee

Psychopathia Sexualis

Texts of terror by Phyllis Trible

Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else by David Cay Johnston

Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson

Online Articles:

My gender is black - https://afropunk.com/2017/07/my-gender-is-black/

The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/vikky-storm-the-gender-accelerationist-manifesto

Why They Call Yale the “Gay Ivy”- http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2009_07/gayivy_033.html

U.S. Income Inequality: It's Worse Today Than It Was in 1774- https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/us-income-inequality-its-worse-today-than-it-was-in-1774/262537/

Creator of the nation of islam - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Fard_Muhammad

Frederick douglas - https://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/people/frederick_douglass.html

THE PURITANICAL EYE: HYPER-MEDIATION, SEX ON FILM, AND THE DISAVOWAL OF DESIRE - https://specchioscuro.it/the-puritanical-eye-hyper-mediation-sex-on-film-and-the-disavowal-of-desire/?utm_campaign=mb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew

The New Feudalism - https://www.crossroadsgazette.com/p/the-new-feudalism

Black liberation and the Communist International - https://isreview.org/issue/81/black-liberation-and-communist-international/index.html

America’s Information Wars: The Untold Story of Information Systems in America’s Conflicts and Politics From World War II to the Internet Age - https://www.pdfdrive.com/americas-information-wars-the-untold-story-of-information-systems-in-americas-conflicts-and-politics-from-world-war-ii-to-the-internet-age-e176445410.html

Gender, Race & Class in Zora Neale Hurston's Politics -https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/2838.html#:~:text=For%20instance%2C%20part%20of%20Hurston's,simple%2Dmindedly%20%E2%80%9Cconservative.%E2%80%9D

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on How She’s Changed- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/us/politics/aoc-third-term-congress.html

Jstor:

The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7rm4x

The Negro a Beast - https://www.jstor.org/stable/25105439 REALISM, GLOBALISM AND GLOBAL HUMANISM IN U.S. POLICY TOWARD THE THIRD WORLD - https://www.jstor.org/stable/43739053

Documentaries & Movies:

Judas and The Black Messiah

Necessary Illusions - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.2946843

High on the Hog - https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0B8TN17MQ/ref=atv_dl_rdr?deepLinkingRedirect=1&autoplay=1

Hebrew Israelites - https://tubitv.com/movies/708263/hebrew-israelites-debunked

#reading #reading recommendations #black academia #black intellectual #reading recs

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aaroncutler · 11 months ago

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Sessão Mutual Films: A vida de dentro: Uma página de loucura + A esposa solitária [Mutual Films Session: The Life Within: A Page of Madness + Charulata]

January 17: The link above leads to Portuguese-language information about the 21st edition of the Mutual Films Session, co-curated and co-organized by me and Mariana Shellard, whose screenings will take place on January 18th, 30th, and 31st at the São Paulo-based unit of the Instituto Moreira Salles.

The event proposes a dialogue between two canonical films devoted to exploring the inner lives of their protagonists that involve images and words from four great artists. The avant-garde masterwork of Japanese silent cinema A Page of Madness (1926) was directed by the prolific and versatile Teinosuke Kinugasa (1896-1982) and based on a script by the writer Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972), who in 1968 would become the first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature to write primarily in the Japanese language. (Kenzaburō Ōe would also win the prize in 1994.) Charulata (1964) became one of the enduring classics of Indian and world cinema of the 1960s thanks in good part to the artistic choices made by its esteemed director, Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), who adapted the 1901 novella The Broken Nest, by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), the first Asian author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 1913) and his country's lone representative among the prize-winners to this day.

A Page of Madness will screen in a new digital copy prepared by the National Film Archive of Japan that differs from previously circulating versions of the film in multiple respects. The restoration efforts that have been made include bringing back a previously missing part of the original opening credits, the original projection velocity of 18 frames per second (fps), the original size of the frame (whose silent dimensions were diminished in the 1970s due to Kinugasa's choice to add a soundtrack), and, perhaps most notably, the original blue tinting of the image, something only discovered during the restoration process.

The version of Charulata that will screen represents a 2K restoration carried out in India in 2013 from the film's original negatives. This restoration process, conducted in Mumbai at Pixion Studios and the Cameon Media Lab, was overseen by Varsha Bansal on behalf of RDB Entertainments, the company that originally produced Charulata together with five other Ray films, all of which have been similarly restored. The screenings at the IMS Paulista mark the restoration's second set of showings in Brazil, with the first being the series "3x Satyajit Ray", which screened in December of 2023 at the Cinemateca Capitólio, in Porto Alegre.

The January 18th screening of A Page of Madness will be presented silently. (Although the film originally showed in Japan with narration by benshis - specialized storytellers and musicians whose accompaniments of silent films proved to be tremendously popular - we prefer to let the film's surreal and oft-ambiguous images speak for themselves on this occasion.) The January 30th screening of the film will feature live musical accompaniment by the Brazilian accordionist and composer Gabriel Levy, an aficionado of Japanese instruments and folk music traditions.

There is much more that could be said about the films, filmmakers, and writers represented in these screenings, and virtually none of it will be said here. However, readers that are interested in learning more about A Page of Madness could reasonably begin with the many pieces related to the film that have been written by the Yale University-based scholar Aaron Gerow, including the book A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan.

For our website, we were fortunate to be able to translate a short article by Gerow about Kawabata's relationship with cinema as explored in literary works like the novel Snow Country and some of his short stories. We have also translated a useful contextualizing article by Kaustuv Sen about the relations between the works by Tagore and Ray, who began as a kind of unofficial disciple of Tagore that eventually more than established his own ground in relation to the master of Indian music and letters.

Of additional interest is a fine short article that was published two years ago by the Indian author and filmmaker Ruchir Joshi about the experience of rewatching Charulata on the occasion of Ray's centenary. This blog's visitors may recognize Joshi as the center of a previous edition of the Mutual Films Session (including with a translation of his essay "The Death of a Tall Man", a much longer piece about Ray's work). Film programmers never act alone, but always in conversation with other researchers, viewers, and voices. For all the help that they have given in terms not only of research, but of inspiration for this project and other ones, people such as Joshi, Gerow, and many others are to be deeply thanked.

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