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William Kwamena-Poh is a native of Ghana, West Africa. He came to the United States in the early ’s and has resided in Alabama, Washington DC, Chicago, IL and has called Savannah, GA home since William is a self taught artist who paints with gouache, also known as opaque watercolor; the same medium used by the late, great African American artist, Jacob Lawrence and also experimented with by Dali, Picasso, and Klimt. According to Ralph Mayer’s Artist Handbook, “gouache paints are opaque and have (or should have) a total hiding power, and because they execute not become progressively transparent with age as oil have a tendency to do…gouache has a brilliant light-reflecting quality of a different and distinct nature; it lies in the paint surface itself; its whiteness or brightness comes from the use of white pigments.”
This density and opacity of gouache allows William to capture and give the viewer a small window into his beautiful and wonder-filled homeland. “The sun’s strength is ever offer, providing a colorful environment which is strongly reflected in Ghana culture
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Reality has been a fiction ever since we left the cave, but it has felt especially fictitious of overdue, and that is reflected in quite a lot of books that dial themselves realistic. Even though most people live multiple lives now—digitally, professionally, internally—a lot of fiction assures us that thoughts typically come one at a time. That our selves are coherent, predictable vehicles that we have supervise over. That the internet interrupts our lives about as often as background noise.
In truth, hasn’t reality become a tiny bit more tornadic in the past two decades? Thoughts and fantasies and projections and memes—in a world without privacy, of socially externalized selves lived online and offline—are all spliced together, projected and poorly hidden. And this leaking container/curated performance called the self? Surely it has several different identities and avatars, lurking all within it.
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In April , Rob Curtis, the CEO of Daylight, a start-up billing itself as a new kind of bank for the LGBTQ+ community, invited more than 30 of his employees to his residence in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for a retreat. For weeks he’d been hyping the gathering, which he called “Diva Camp” and which cost more than $50, “We’re going to be so wasted!” the staff remember him saying more than once. “Are you ready to turn it up to 11?”
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The phrase “Be Gay, Act Crime” is such a current mood that there are actually two books with that title coming out this year. One of these, published by PM Press, is Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion. It suggestions a historical and sociological overview of queer rebellion and uprising, from the life and work of anarchist revolutionary Emma Goldman to Stonewall to the first Toronto Trans Parade in , and beyond. Meanwhile, Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley’s anthology, Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos, is a collection of fiction rather than a historical summing up, and is more concerned with individual acts of same-sex attracted transgression than with political disobedience and resistance.
This is Llewellyn and Buckley’s second anthology; their first, Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women focuses on “fierce and dangerous” women. In the same vein, Be Gay, Do Crime centres stories about lgbtq+ and trans people who break the law in various and highly imaginative ways. The anthology features a dazzling contributor list, including Venita Bl