JORDON BRIGGS

Dir: Dee Rees Wri: Dee Rees Dee Rees, Christopher Cleveland, Bettina Gilois/story by Dee Rees, Horton Foote Prod: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3704352/ Starring: Queen Latifah, Mo’Nique, Michael K. Williams, Torry Kittles, Tika Sumpter This film can be found online Being punk is to be black. But is being black being punk? Yeah—mostly. Punk, like most American music is a child of the blues. But punk’s distinction from other forms of music, except for hip hop, and the blues, is

I love film, and I love women. This post came about while I was starting to do research to write about Chantal Akerman’s Je, Tu, Il, Elle, and thinking about the famous phrase in feminist culture and history, “The personal is Political” coined by Carol Hanisch. In thinking about that phrase, and thinking about Akerman’s film, and my own filmmaking which has started to become very influenced by  Akerman’s films, That I started getting excited, and full of ideas. When this happ