Black Women and Femmes in Entertainment

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Daisy Tonner/Basira Hussain. I create for an audience of one (me)

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Diahann Carroll as Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, photographed during the landmark Canadian production at Toronto’s Ford Centre for the Performing Arts, where she starred from October 1995 through August 1996 before the production transferred to Vancouver for an additional run into 1997. Carroll brought a uniquely glamorous and world-weary elegance to Norma, draped in opulent beaded gowns, sculptural turbans, satin caftans, and jewel-toned costumes that emphasized the faded silent-screen grandeur at the heart of the role. Her performance marked one of the first major productions of Sunset Boulevard to feature a Black actress as Norma Desmond, and became a celebrated chapter in the musical’s international history. 

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fighting or foreplay? 🤷‍♂️

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She is probably best known as friend, confidant–and in some cases, girlfriend–to legends like James Brown, Little Willie John, Sam Cooke, and perhaps most notably, Jimi Hendrix (it is believed that several Hendrix songs are about her, including “Foxy Lady”). She was also Etta James’ best friend. 

However, Lithofayne Pridgon is also a singer/songwriter. You can hear some of her recordings on YouTube (link below).

YouTube Channel All photos from The Guardian (“Lithofayne Pridgon: Jimi Hendrix’s original ‘foxy lady’”).

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Meet the crew ...

Andrei Dalca is a rumpled, soft-spoken engineer who once believed humanity had outgrown war — until the Tranquility attack nearly killed his son. Now he’s helping build something powerful enough to protect the future, even as he fears he’s becoming complicit in the very forces he’s spent his life warning against.

Vera “Fishcakes” Lam is a feral, sharp-eyed Martian orphan who looks like a kid but moves like a blade. Torn from her parents during Mars’s first great betrayal and raised among the Moon’s forgotten children, she learned early that survival isn’t about safety... it’s about choosing her own freedom.

Lachesis “Kiki” Davis has built a name on charm and nerve. With a rare-metal asteroid to her name, she’s fielding offers from across the system and leaning into the thrill while it lasts.

Project Daedalus: build a spaceborne first-response defense platform capable of intercepting any Martian threat before it reaches Earth space.

The Icaron: Part Ark, part battleship. First of its kind Thermoplasmic Routing Core drawing from solar, nuclear, EM fields. Deploys smaller craft with pinpoint precision.

[althecowboy]

You look good!

[faithmitchells]

EBONY WILDER Nemesis 1.05: Business. Never Personal.

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NOVA & CHANTAL | QUEEN SUGAR

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If you could teach a master class for young, queer creatives of color but you could only teach it through storytelling — no advice, no lecture — what scene from your real life would you use to educate them?

The first thing that's coming to my mind is an audition. I was auditioning for Legends of Tomorrow. I hadn't had much experience and I was 23 years old at the time in Los Angeles. I've never been a series regular before. Everyone was looking glam and glitzy and gorgeous. Back in the day, you used to have to wait and see all your competition [laughs] and I came in a tank top and jeans. Everyone's kind of like looking at me and everyone's chit-chatting. They all know each other. I felt so small and I just sat there.

I was like, no, I refused to question myself by asking, Why not me? I gathered myself and got my self motivation and power together. I went in and I smashed it. I gave my best, and I gave my true self. I didn't try to be like any of the other women. I just was like, this is me and it was a very honest performance. I was the underdog. I was the misfit. I use those things to my advantage and as a result, I won. I think especially as queer people, as people of color, often we are not the dominant voice in the room. We're not the one who's necessarily given the microphone. We're not the most numbered. I think it's even more important to lean into what makes you an individual and not try to blend in or try to dim light for the comfort of others in that space.

How Maisie Richardson-Sellers 'fought' for her 'Nine Perfect Strangers' character

The actress talks about how she advocated to give Wolfie a backstory — and a three-dimensional love story.

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Seynabou Z. Cissé

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THUSO MBEDU as ALEAH CLINTON Task, ‘Crossings’

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Music - the art of song

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gods for the modern age: sekhmet

[lebornaciar]

be a fighter: fight all those who oppose you, and when your people fall, fight death too. be a queen: deck yourself in gold and jewels and wear regality in every glittering gemstone. be the desert: scorching and bright, magnificent and deadly. wear your lion’s heart on your sleeve and hold your head high and if anyone tries to tear you down, destroy them.

[biancalawsongifs]

 You love him, don’t you?