A video roundup!
MUSIC
Watch Beyoncé’s Yours and Mine, a short film celebrating the release of her self-titled album around this time last year:
PLUS: Pussy Riot and JD Samson of Le Tigre are collaborating, the Juliana Hatfield Three are getting back together for the first time since 1993, and Bitch has a great roundup of this year’s feminist music by Katie Presley, the music critic I have to thank for introducing me to my favorite musical discovery of the year, Lowell.
MOVIES
This week, Ava DuVernay became the first black woman to be nominated for a Golden Globe for best director. Watch the trailer for her film Selma below:
(On the not-so-celebratory side, Paramount Pictures has only released two movies in 2014 with black protagonists, and Selma is one of them.)
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, a fantastic new documentary about the women’s movement from 1966 to 1971 is screening in select cities. We caught it at NYC’s Landmark Sunshine, where it will be playing until tomorrow.
TV
HBO’s documentary Regarding Susan Sontag premiered this week. Watch the trailer here:
LITERATURE
Watch Clarice Lispector’s only television interview, on TV Cultura in São Paulo in 1977:
We were also reading “The Sororal Death” by Anne Boyer at The New Inquiry, “The Ghosts of Christmas Future” series at Barrelhouse (featuring WEIRD SISTER faves Gina Myers and Alissa Nutting), and “White Boys Will Be Boys: My Mike Brown, White Privilege and Adolescent Mischief” by Matt L. Rohrer at Apogee, and happy to see this roundup of tons of #BlackPoetsSpeakOut posts, and recent love for the wonders of the chapbook.
ART
Emma Sulkowicz will discuss Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight), her endurance performance and protest, at the Brooklyn Museum at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday. Watch Sulkowicz explain the project here:
INTERSECTIONALITY
explained by Laverne Cox:
