About The Author
This writer advocated for a "Black Revolutionary Theater"
Who is Amiri Baraka?
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."
Simone de Beauvoir
A tasty Biblical fruit that was enjoyed on the subway?
What is an apple?
Nobody sits like this rock sits. You rock, rock. The rock just sits and is. You show us how to just sit here and that's what we need.
Who is Albert Markovski?
This material girl rose to stardom in the 1980s.
Who is Madonna?
This important philosophical figure was accused of grooming students and later engaging in intimate affairs. At the same time, this author initiated many liberation movements.
Who is Simone De Beauvoir?
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
Albert Camus
This story employs this oft use symbol to describe the numerous ways the characters experience and navigate the world.
What is a rainbow?
“You look like you live in New Jersey with your parents and are trying to grow a beard. That’s what. You look like you’ve been reading Chinese poetry and drinking lukewarm sugarless tea. […] You look like death eating a soda cracker.”
Who is Lula?
These are the two famous words sung by Kendrick Lamar in the song "Not Like Us."
What are "A Minor"?
This physician and psychiatrist was often described as "the most influential anticolonial thinker of his time".
Who is Fanon?
The universe is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
Who is Bernard Jaffe?
This item was used to explain the interconnectedness of everything.
What is a blanket?
I thought, Phillipe has gone, and I am to spend the rest of my life with an old man.
Who is the narrator in Age of Discretion?
This popular Youtuber directed the movie Iron Lung.
Who is Markiplier?
This American writer focused their work on Race and Black power. An Obie award winner, this writer also had close ties to the movement Womanism.
Who is Ntozake Shange?
I was responsible not only for my body, but also for my race and my ancestors.
Who is Frantz Fanon?
This is the mechanism by which people in positions of power in Western society dehumanize and objectify certain groups of people through gender and racist stereotypes, forcing them to internalize this perspective.
What is the white/male gaze?
How am I not myself?
Who is Brad Stand?
On this popular streaming show people get engaged without ever seeing each other.
What is Love is Blind?
This screenwriter was nominated for five academy awards.
Who is David Russell?
But all of a sudden I hear footsteps in the hall. Someone is looking at me. What does this mean? It means that I am suddenly affected in my being and that essential modifications appear in my structure - modifications which I can apprehend and fix conceptually by means of the reflective cogito.
First of all, I now exist as myself for my unreflective consciousness. It is this irruption of the self which has been most often described: I see myself because somebody sees me - as it is usually expressed.
Who is Sartre?
Phillipe decides on an alternative career. His new place of employment symbolizes a stark contrasts to the more rebelious ways of his mother and father.
What is the Ministry of Culture?
"i usedta be in the world / a woman in the world / i hadda right to the world / then i moved to harlem"
Who is the lady in blue?
This famous musician from Northern Virginia has played in multiple famous bands as a hard hitting drummer and for the past 25 plus years as guitarist/ vocalist.
Who is Dave Grohl?