Sinister Wisdom 97: Out Latina Lesbians: Soy lesbiana y qué! Edited by Nívea Castro with Geny Cabral
Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary & Art Journal has just published issue 97 (Summer 2015), titled "Out Latina Lesbians" and edited by Nívea Castro with Geny Cabral. The issue includes pieces by Erika Abad, Janis Astor del Valle, Yoseli Castillo Fuertes, Alina Galliano, Alixa García, Marga Gomez, Osa Hildalgo de la Riva, Karen Jaime, Cherríe Moraga, Bessy Reyna as Deyanira García (Sargenta G), and others. Julie R. Enszer, the editor of Sinister Wisdom, offers her thoughts in a Huffington Post piece here. You may order issue for $12 + shipping or subscribe here. Congratulations to all of the authors! ¡Felicidades!
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit Exhibit, Detroit Institute of Arts, 2015
Source of image: Creative Voice: Highlights Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo in Detroit @ The DIA 3.14.15, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Dpf5MvfR8
Facebook, the new Puritan Inquisition, will ban you for 24 hours if someone reports you for violating community standards. Evidently, posting images by Mexican artists of nude women of African descent (for example, this preliminary drawing by Diego Rivera for the Detroit Industry murals at the Detroit Institute of Art, 1932-33) violates these standards. (I posted this image yesterday on my Facebook page as as part of an album on the current exhibit at the DIA.) I have been banned until tomorrow and will be posting exclusively on Twitter, Instagram, and Blogger.com.
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This is not the first time I have been reported for violating community standards. Last year (2014) it was for posting images of a performance in Old San Juan (Puerto Rico) involving public nudity. Three artists were arrested by the police. The event was covered in the local press; see TuNoticia, El Nuevo Día, NotiCel, Metro, Primera Hora.
NotiCel YouTube video of Artistic Drawing Performance in San Juan that Led to Arrests 2014
Congratulations to directors Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles, to director of cinematography Adam Uhl and to the entire cast and crew of the Puerto Rican transgender documentary Mala Mala for the premiere today at the IFC Center in New York City! ¡Felicidades!
Soy un escritor, académico, y performancero puertorriqueño. He publicado: Uñas pintadas de azul (2009), Queer Ricans (2009) y Abolición del pato (2013).
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes (also known as Lola von Miramar) is a Puerto Rican writer, performer, and scholar. He received his AB from Harvard (1991) & PhD from Columbia (1999). He teaches at the Univ. of Michigan, where he specializes in LGBT Latina/o studies. He is author of Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2009), & of two books of short stories: Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails (Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, Arizona, 2009) and Abolición del pato (Terranova Editores, 2013). He co-edited a special issue of CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies on Puerto Rican Queer Sexualities (2007). He performs as Lola von Miramar since 2010, when he first appeared in the Feast of Fun's "Cooking With Drag Queens: How to Make Tostones" video.
