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Last October, Sergio profiled a new British TV comedy series titled “Chewing Gum”, which premiered on the UK’s Channel 4 network; Sergio emphasized the fact that the series is created by a black woman comedian, whose routine is generally what he described as “graphic, lowdown sexual humor,” the kind that “goes there.”
That black woman comedian, as well as actress, writer and performer, is Michaela Coel. And the TV series is based on her 2012 one-woman show, “Chewing Gum Dreams,” in which the 26-year-old played a teenage version of herself, as she related past experiences growing up in the working class London neighborhoods of Hackney and Tower Hamlets, with her very religious mother, all while she became very acutely aware of her own sexuality, unprepared for the realities of sex and gender that she would face in the real world.
As Coel said when the TV show launched last fall, she wanted her show to reflect “the sort of life you don’t see very often on TV,” adding that the “sexual naiveté” of the character she plays reflects her own celibacy between the ages of 17 and 22, as a member of what she called “a massive conversion to this very Pentecostal, demon-exorcising church.”
“Psychologically, I was in a whirlwind,” she said.
Seven months since the show’s premiere, it’s been a hit in the UK, and, last night, earned Ms. Coel the BAFTA TV award (essentially the UK’s equivalent of the Primetime Emmys) for best actress in a comedy series.
I’ll have to research BAFTA TV history to find out if this is some kind of history-making event (as in the first black actress to win in this category, or something to that effect). Thus far, none of the UK media websites have mentioned this, so I’m assuming that maybe it’s not a history-making event. But I will still investigate for myself.
Sergio summarized “Chewing Gum’s” genesis in his October post, as follows: After winning a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she was the “first black girl they’d had in five years and the only person in [her] year whose parents weren’t homeowners… ‘Chewing Gum Dreams’ was originally conceived as her graduation piece, but after it became a smash hit at a local theater, the play moved to the more prestigious National Theater in London. Shortly afterwards, Coel was approached about turning it into a TV series, however she was reluctant at first of her abilities to play the role on television. But after appearing on another Channel 4 TV series, “Top Boy,” the positive responses she got for her work on that show convinced her that “Chewing Gum” could work as a series. However, Coel doesn’t see “Chewing Gum” as simply about a young back girl trying to find her way to adulthood. She says the overarching themes in the show are about “class and community.” “On my estate, everyone’s different racially but economic circumstances give people a particular culture. I know Tower Hamlets is one of the poorest boroughs in the UK, but I’d rather write about all the great stuff than the misery. I wanted to make the estate a place where people would want to live. I loved my estate!” she exclaimed.
Love love love, Chewing Gum!
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Wifredo Óscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla aka Wilfredo Lam
Country: Cuba (Of Chinese/Latin/African Descent)
Style: Surrealism
Medium: Oil on canvas/cardboard/paper
Fun Fact: In January and February 1941, Lam illustrated Breton’s poem Fata Morgana which was censored by the Vichy government. On March 25, Lam and Helena Holzer embarked on the “Capitaine Paul Lemerle” headed for Martinique, in the company of some 300 other artists and intellectuals―André Breton and Claude Lévi-Strauss among them. Upon arrival, the passengers were interred at Trois Îles. It was during this forced passage in Martinique and before leaving for Cuba that Lam and Aimé Césaire met for the first time to become life-long friends.
Quote:“It is often assumed that my work took its final form in Haiti, but my stay there, like the trips I made to Venezuela, Colombia or to the Brazilian Mato Grosso only broadened its scope. I could have been a good painter from the School of Paris, but I felt like a snail out of its shell. What really broadened my painting is the presence of African poetry.”
Works
True to my exploration of negritude, these paintings are from the 40s period of his works when he was closest linked to the movement
1. Harpe Astrale (Harpe Cardinal)
2. Le Bruit
3. Le Sombre Malembo, Dieu du carrefour
4. Tête [Canaima],
5. La Jungle
6. Mofumbe (Ce qui Importe)
7. Untitled
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View more of his work (post negritude) here
http://www.wifredolam.net/
Lupita Nyong’o at the 2016 US Open, 8/30/16
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The Victim Blame Game Yet another view on this entire victim shaming incident.
Barry and Bull
Roughly a week ago there was a shitstorm taking place on social media. On Saturday, October 10th, the MP for Princes Town, Barry Padarath, gave his maiden presentation. Padarath’s fiery debut was quickly followed by Darryl Smith, also a first time MP giving his maiden contribution. Smith used his opening remarks, and intervals in his speech, to poke fun at Padarath’s effeminate mannerisms which…
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#IfIDieInPoliceCustody is trending in social media.
This has to be the saddest indictment on race relations in the United States.
Are we there yet in Trinidad and Tobago, that people need to take in front in case they die at the hands of or while in the hands of the Police?
#gangrelated #knowntothepolice #eastposresident
Govt Fat Kyats at UNC Election Launch
Pimping the Pooja
The notice for Hanooman Pooja in Trinidad Express, June 1st, 2015, p 17 In the last 5 years Indian Arrival Day (not Arrival Day) has become the official holiday for Sat Maharaj to mouth off, with open encouragement from the Prime Minister, and makes offensive comments to the rest of the national community while acting as if only Indians of Hindu descent arrived here, ever. In light of this…
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Kito Fortune. #Bocas #2CentsMovement #PoetrySlam