Just the power of seeing… me. Wolfe Video has released an official trailer for an indie documentary called
Ahead of the Curve, opening at the IFC Center in NYC starting this week. The doc is a fascinating inside look at
Curve magazine, the best-selling lesbian magazine ever published. From its start in 1990,
Curve magazine was a visionary and unapologetic celebration of lesbian life from cover to cover. Confronted with their possible demise in 2019, director Jen Rainin and
Curve founder Franco Stevens explore questions of lesbian visibility, legacy, intersectionality & current day issues through interviews with many contemporary LGBTQ+ tastemakers and activists, plus celesbians including Melissa Etheridge, Jewelle Gomez, Denice Frohman, Kate Kendell, and Lea DeLaria. It also features rich archival footage recounting the formation of a lesbian cultural institution. It s praised in reviews as an accomplished, resonant and deeply moving film.
Curve magazine founder Frances Franco Stevens celebrated the popular lesbian magazine s 30th anniversary with three big announcements last week. She bought back the publication, established a foundation to oversee it, and is releasing a documentary.
In 2010, lesbian publisher Stevens sold the magazine she conceived and grew for two decades to fellow lesbian publisher Silke Bader of Avalon Media in Sydney, Australia. Australian lesbian media expert Merryn Johns became editor-in-chief, leading the magazine in New York for the past decade.
That all changed this year. Stevens posted a video announcing the buyback of Curve and the launch of The Curve Foundation with the Black Eyed Peas I Got A Feeling playing in the background on her Facebook page Friday, April 16, the day the deal was finalized.
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Poet, Raquel Gutiérrez, “Don’t be afraid to belong to each other.”
Hannah Eko Apr 12, 2021 10:00AM ET
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Latinx identity is an incredible blend of movements, cultures, and language. It is also an identity that continues to face considerable challenges, including inhumane migration policies, and inaction by Congress, which continually threatens to defer the
American Dream for the undocumented Latinx community.
But despite these inequalities, still they rise. One poet on our list arrived in the US in her mother’s belly, while another challenged the notion that one must provide “proof of citizenship” to create art. And thus, we celebrate the lives and experiences of these five Latinx poets, who use their poetry as artful protest, and bridge their multitudinous identities with mastery and courageous truth-telling.