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Archive for July, 2007

Two Thumbs Up

Voices Rising got a strong nodd from author/professor of Black popular culture, Mark Anthony Neal on Vibe Blogs . How very cool!!!

Thanks to the great taste and thoughtfullness of my beloved Daniel Alexander Jones I donn fell in love with Dame Shirley Bassey. Her remake of Pink’s Get The Party Started is my current theme song….I had just told Daniel that i’d love to be her butch armpiece
and carry her scarfs and whatnot
and see what had happened was
well
anyways
I posted the Get The Party Started video on this website (under NEWS in a entry labeled VIDEO FAVS. And I got a beautiful email from her people saying thank you and asking that I let folk know that the song is out now as a single with fabulous mixes. Check out Dame Shirley Bassey’s MySpace. She yields the Power/Dignity/Grace/Talent and Creativity that I aspire to. and yeah,
YUM!

RedBone Press Retreat

I had the Blessed experience of Being on retreat this past week-end with some of the most Brilliant artists of our times! We workshopped Work-ATE-laughed-ATE-watched movies-talked-ATE…you get the picture…
Retreat
It was a gathering of the House of RedBone Press… present of course was the mother of the house of RedBone Lisa C. Moore, and her chil’rens/and extended family: Ernest Hardy, Marvin K. White, Samiya Bashir, Ana-Maurine Lara, Eunice Corbin, Curu Necos-Bloice, Omi Osun Olomo/Joni L. Jones, Jafari Sinclaire Allen, Phillip Kirk Alexander,Sheree Ross, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Reginald Harris, G. Winston James and of course yours truly…

Angel In Flight…

The Great Poet, Historian, Musician, Signifier SEKOU SUNDIATA…

  • on NPR
  • “the sound of memory”
  • With Righteous Babe Records
  • NY Times Obituary
  • Video Favs

    O’tay/so thanks to Daniel I have Shirley Bassey’s new CD and I’m in love. Check out Ms. Bassey and some of my other video favs

    Suspect Thoughts

    I am very honored to be one of the writers featured in this amazing online journal published by Suspect Thoughts. This issue is titled, The Reflections Issue and is edited by the one and only Emanuel Xavier!

    — Sharon Bridgforth

    RedBone Revue

    ALLGO PROUDLY ANNOUNCES:

    THE REDBONE REVUE:
    A READING OF BLACK LGBT WRITERS
    Friday – July 20, 2007
    Reading – 8pm / Dance – 11pm
    Historic Victory Grill
    1104 East 11th Street Austin, TX 78702
    Donations Accepted
    For more on the RedBone Revue Artists visit:
    allgo

    For the first time ever, Austin will bear witness to a gathering of some of the most prolific LGBT Black writers in the country, the RedBone Revue. Hailing from across the United States, RedBone Press authors include: New York-based Samiya Bashir, Austin-based Sharon Bridgforth, Los Angeles-based Ernest Hardy, Baltimore-based Reginald Harris, New York-based G. Winston James, Austin-based Ana-Maurine Lara, D.C.-based Lisa C. Moore, and Oakland-based Marvin K. White.

    A dance will immediately follow the performance with a live DJ spinning Hip Hop, R&B, Salsa, Merengue, Reggae and Reggaetón. So come prepared to experience a one-of-a-kind evening of artistic breadth and non-stop dancing until 2:00 a.m. More information on the RedBone Revue, including artist biographies and directions to the Historic Victory Grill, can be found by visiting allgo

    About RedBone Press
    RedBone Press publishes work celebrating the cultures of black lesbians and gay men, and work that further promotes understanding between black gays and lesbians and the black mainstream. RedBone’s first book, does your mama know? An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories , won two 1997 Lambda Literary Awards, for Small Press and Lesbian Studies. The second title, the bull-jean stories by Sharon Bridgforth, won the 1998 Lambda Literary Award for Small Press. Three more books were released September 2004: love conjure/blues, a novel by Sharon Bridgforth; last rights and nothin’ ugly fly, both books of poetry by Marvin K. White. In the summer of 2005, RedBone published Where the Apple Falls, poetry by Samiya Bashir. Published in 2006 are Spirited: Affirming the Soul and Black Gay/Lesbian Identity, Blood Beats: Vol. 1, and Erzulie’s Skirt. Published in 2007 are Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing; and Carry the Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books. All titles since 2004 have been Lambda Literary Award finalists; additionally, Blood Beats: Vol. 1 won a 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Award.

    About allgo
    allgo works to create and sustain a statewide network of queer people of color activists, groups, organizations and allies, which through nourishment of relationships, grassroots organizing and artistic expression can radically transform systems and policies toward a collective liberation. For further information and/or to sign up for future events, visit www.allgo.org or call 512-472-2001, ext. 101/ e-mail lorenzo@allgo.org for Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano.

    Priscilla A. Hale, LMSW
    Director of Organizational Development
    ALLGO
    701 Tillery Box 4
    Austin, Tejas 78702
    512.472.2001 ext 102
    512.385.2970 fax
    allgo