Who saves a ticket? Well, as museums, we’re glad some people do. Because on closer inspection, these rather mundane objects offer a fresh and often unique interpretation of London’s social and cultural history.
Late Lady: Billie Holiday On Verve in the 1950s
In 1952, Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star.
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Monday, March 8th
the mother of afrofuturism writer Octavia Butler
Octavia Butler was a deep observer of the human condition, perplexed and inspired by our propensity towards self-destruction. She described herself as a pessimist, if I m not careful.
As an award-winning science fiction writer and mother of Afrofuturism, her visionary works of alternate realities reveal striking and often devastating parallels to the world we live in today. Butler was fascinated by the cyclical nature of history and often looked to the past when writing about the future. She broke on to the science fiction scene at a time when she knew of no other Black women in the field, saying she simply had to write herself in.
This well-organized book is a lucid and accessible tour of white feminism in the unsparing light of 2020 clarity, and offers ideas of where to go from here.