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WRITING: 

By KATE WALTER, CALA Writing Faculty

“After I came out in 1975, I escaped from my conservative Catholic upbringing in New Jersey and moved to the East Village to be a dyke. Since then, I always mark the start of summer with Pride.

But this year the big NYC Pride March was canceled, for the first time since 1970. Over the decades, I was thrilled to march and protest and cheer with friends and lovers. In 45 years, I have only missed this event twice.

I can trace my queer evolution from the different contingents I joined to march with over the decades. In the ’70s, I stepped out with the feisty Lesbian Feminist Liberation.

In the ’80s, I marched with my partner as part of the Gay Teachers Association, where we met at a meeting.

In the ’90s, I went with the Gay Writers and was the group marshall.

During the moment of silence, I thought of Joe, my college boyfriend who died of AIDS” 

Continue to read The Village Sun article here Gay Pride in Isolation

Interview by Lucas Iberico Lozada with writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio in Guernica Magazine: “DREAMer memoirs have their purpose. But that’s not what I set out to write.”

Cornejo Villavicencio has been writing professionally since she was a teenager, reviewing jazz albums for a monthly magazine in New York City. Then, during her senior year at Harvard, she wrote an essay for The Daily Beast on what the site wanted to call her “dirty little secret”: Cornejo Villavicencio, who was born in Ecuador, was undocumented, and she had no idea what she was going to do after her graduation in May 2011. Read full interview here Guernica

DOCUMENTARY:

The title of Ava DuVernay’s extraordinary and galvanizing documentary 13TH refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American prison industry is laid out by DuVernay with bracing lucidity. Streaming on Netflix. 

Disclosure (2020) Netflix

According to a study from GLAAD, over 80% of Americans don’t personally know someone who’s transgender. That means most people learn about trans people from the ways they’re depicted in movies and TV. From executive producer Laverne Cox and director Sam Feder comes Disclosure, a documentary that chronicles over 100 years of trans representation on screen, from silent film to Dog Day Afternoon, The 40-Year-Old Virgin to Pose.

THEATER: June 23 at 5 PM Live 

Oppenheimer Award-winning playwright and poet Cornelius Eady and renowned actors Joe Morton and Sally Murphy (right), reunite to discuss Eady’s play BRUTAL IMAGINATION, which premiered at The Vineyard in 2002 and remains a potent examination of racial injustice in America.

BRUTAL IMAGINATION is based on Eady’s poem cycle exploring the notorious 1994 incident in which Susan Smith, a white woman from South Carolina, claimed that an African American man had kidnapped her children. The FBI searched for the man until Smith confessed the truth: she had invented the man and had drowned the children. BRUTAL IMAGINATION brings this invented man to life and tells the story from his perspective. For YouTube and Facebook links click VineyardTheaterLive

DANCE: SOLEDAD BARRIO & NOCHE FLAMENCA

Streaming through Friday, June 26 at 7 pm. Displaying the spellbinding talent of Soledad Barrio, Noche Flamenca returns to The Joyce with a JoyceStream presentation of Intimo, a series of intimate duets which explore the possibilities and limitations of human relationship created by the company’s Artistic Director Martín Santangelo.

Featuring live music, the performance opens with La Ronde inspired by the Max Ophuls film, and includes solos from Juan Ogalla and Soledad Barrio, who will perform her signature piece, the Solea. In Intimo, the troupe continues to push the boundaries of the traditional flamenco format, drawing from the realm of dance theater, while still retaining the integrity of the raw and rapturous art form.