The Watermelon Woman
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Read More: #38, the NEA matters, fight for the least-seen to speak truth to powerTwenty years ago, on March 13, 1997, Frank Rich penned an op-ed, “Lesbian Lookout,” in support of the NEA, which was under threat. The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996), which…
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Read More: Radical Queer Culture in “Mainstream Places”: Taylor Mac, Transparent and the Watermelon WomanI’ll begin with a shout-out, a dream-out—not a review but a reverie—of Taylor Mac’s “A Twenty-Four Hour History of Popular Music,” an unforgettable opus, atheistic tent revival, and hootenanny that…
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Read More: The opposite of archiving: Zoe Leonard, Fae Richards, and the Watermelon WomanSometimes things align, but mostly, really, it’s because they are already connected. Such is the case with the showing of Zoe Leonard’s compelling new body of work, “In the Wake,”…