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A still from Querelle shows a sailor leaning against a telephone pole as a theatrical sun sets behind him.

1982

By Oluwatayo Adewole • March 24th, 2023

This month we’re taking on two grand pieces of homoeroticism, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film Querelle and Judas Priest’s Screaming for Vengeance.

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A black-and-white photograph of a Black woman standing in front of a Senegalese mask hung on a wall. Her hands rest on the wall to either side of it, and she turns to look over her right shoulder towards something or someone behind her.

1966

By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 25th, 2023

Freedom is one of those fundamental and recurring items in how we think about the world we live in and our place in it. There are few times where this was clearer than in 1966.

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A black and white photograph of several Black Americans rioting in the street in the 1970s.

1973

By Oluwatayo Adewole • November 29th, 2022

A poetic embodiment of the fever-dream feelings within The Spook Who Sat By The Door and Ganja & Hess.

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1943

By Oluwatayo Adewole • October 26th, 2022

How do you see that the world is bigger and more full of mystery than you had ever imagined and yet still your purest impulse continues to be to subjugate?

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In a still from The Last of England, a woman with long blonde hair wearing a wedding dress rends her dress apart while screaming in front of an open flame.

1987

By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 28th, 2022

Tayo’s back discussing two films from 1987, both by trailblazing gay directors, Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys and Derek Jarman’s The Last of England.

World Tour
A portrait of the poet Danez Smith.

Homie

By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 24th, 2021

It’s been a hell of a ride.

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A person reclines on an animal drawn carriage.

Senegal

By Oluwatayo Adewole • August 3rd, 2021

Senegal here we come!

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A teenager sits in a straw hut, holding up a shard of glass through which we can see part of his face, which is Black and covered in white chalk, with a nose ring in. We see this from behind so the back of his head takes up half of the screen.

South Africa

By Oluwatayo Adewole • July 9th, 2021

A trip to South Africa!

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Zambia

By Oluwatayo Adewole • June 11th, 2021

What makes a witch? Is it a hue of the skin? Is it a twitch in the eye? Is it a smell in the air?

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A couple ride in the back seat of a car, dimly lit. One rests their head on the other.

Hong Kong

By Oluwatayo Adewole • May 13th, 2021

Pack your bags for Hong Kong but also Argentina sort of!

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