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Kudzanai-Violet Hwami: When You Need Letters for Your Skin
London-based artist Kudzanai-Violet Hwami was born in Gutu, Zimbabwe in 1993 and her work reveals a deeply personal vision of Southern African life. Her new solo show at Victoria Miro Gallery shows new work that draws on her experiences of geographical dislocation and displacement, her paintings combine visual fragments from a myriad of sources such…
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Will we still Love Lucy after watching Aaron Sorkin’s Biopic?
Academy Award-winning writer/director Aaron Sorkin well known for his time for West Wing (of the White House) has now moved in to the Ricardos house. The home of Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz. His highly anticipated new movie Being The Ricardos is about a time when not everyone loved Lucy. They are…
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The Butch Monologues, Last Stand
The Butch Monologues are a powerful and often humorous collection of secret stories exploring sexuality, vulnerability, and desire taken from interviews with butches, masculine women and transmen, living worldwide. Originally a London-based group of butches, transmen and gender rebels brought together in friendship and solidarity have been touring the globe since 2015 with this…
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PTown’s Fantasia Fair : The Original Transgender Week
To those in the LGBTQ+ community who think the ‘T’ part is a relatively new dialogue will probably be shocked to know that this week sees Ptown’s Annual Fantasia Fair that has been in existence for 46 years now. Back in 1975 the Fair was conceived by Ariadne Kane and others in Boston’s Cherrystones support…
