Fresthetic Artist Talk: Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
I talked with Fresthetic about my work, and the upcoming show Stop Telling Women to Smile.
Fresthetic does a lot of cool stuff, and I encourage people to also watch some of their other artist talks. (Especially Joshua Mays’. He’s so damn good.)
Stop Telling Women to Smile opens this Friday at Fresthetic from 7-10pm.
If you don’t know Tatyana Fazlalizadeh yet, watch this!
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Marimacho’s Brooklyn Blazer
Photo by Bryon Malik www.bmalikphotography.com
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the boots the suitcase the bowtie matching the socks the look the everything
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love NPRBy all accounts, she had real talent, but the focus was on her sexy image despite her undeniable soprano (with 4 octave range). Once dubbed the “black Marilyn Monroe,” constant mentions in Walter Winchell’s gossip column made her a star and she was widely considered the first dark-skinned Black woman to be considered a sex symbol inside and outside of the black community.
Joyce earned nearly $1 million at her peak, but her upbringing in a very strict Seventh Day Adventist home left her feeling guilty about sex and her sexy image. According to Dorothy Dandridge’s biographer Donald Bogle, Dorothy pulled Joyce aside after a date in still-segregated Miami Beach and asked for advice on negotiating her nightclub fees (“What do you do? How do you get ask?) She was also very impressed with her stage presence (“How do you walk up on that stage and stay as calm as you are? It seems so easy for you.”)
After a series of trying events, Joyce Bryant left show business at the top of her career and returned home and to the church. She worked with the church for 20 years, singing, ministering to the poor, enduring sexism and lies from people who were less than forgiving about her past. Finally, disappointed with the people in her church, she left and eventually made her way back to the stage. After doing opera in Europe, South America and the New York Opera Company, she had a successful cabaret run in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Neil Kenlock is a British- Jamaican photographer and entrepreneur based in London. For the past 20 years his work has documented the culture of Jamaicans living and visiting the UK. In 1979 he co-founded Root Magazine, the UK’s first black glossy lifestyle magazine. After the sale of the magazine in 1987, Kenlock later went on to become co-founder of Choice FM Radio, the UK’s first radio station broadcasting to the Black Community. Kenlock’s work is showing at the Tate Britain as part of the exhibit Another London through September 16, 2012. This exhibit brings together 180 classic twentieth-century photographs taken of London between 1930-1980, by International photographers, highlighting the diverse culture & views of the city.
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-Barbara Smith of the Combahee River Collective, 1982. (via feministmonsta)
TAKE NOTES.
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and since this fucker is on my page right now……He has repeatedly harassed several women on tumblr by going through their blogs and reblogging their posts when they’ve told him repeatedly to leave them alone. He then refuses to take down their photos, even when they ask him to, and even when the girls are underage. Tumblr refuses to do anything about it. And I say fuck that. I will protect myseld and other women from this creep since no one else will.
Approximate coordinates: 40.61-73.9108
Approximate address: 2527 Mill Ave, Brooklyn NY
Protect yourselves.
and since i’ve messaged this person many times with only one response of “I’m a man.” the raison d’être of his blog is exoticizing as fuck:
This blog is a display of my greatest weakness: black women and particular types. I like what my friends call “strange things” about black women…like their collar bones, big hair, nappy hair, curly hair, bald head.
things i'm into/post about: art, fashion, "politics," feminism, consent, social justice, queerness, identity politics, and generally speaking, badass empowering shit. my real blog is alagarconniere.wordpress.com.
often nsfw images.
disclaimer: the views expressed on this site are the author's and the author's alone. they do not reflect the views of her employer or any professional organization with which she is now or has been affiliated.
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friendly neighbour.
Parisians walk on the street past lottery and vermouth advertisements in 1935.
Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic
