Poster by Emory Douglas
Black Pulp! Presents: Satire, Comics and Authorship
Panel Discussion featuring Trenton Doyle Hancock, Laylah Ali and Ariell Johnson
I’ve finally decided to dabble in the world of podcasts. A good one can be really wonderful (especially after some weed). It’s lovely to step back and realize wow, I’m not totally warped by the Internet — I can sit and listen to people speaking for 37 minutes! Listening is a skill, one that’s both empowering and rewarding, and it really is easy to forget you can take those skills into your everyday life. For example, you could go to a panel, on October 22nd, like Black Pulp! Presents: Satire, Comics and Authorship and listen!
I’ve always enjoyed a really good panel discussion, usually because they are composed of professionals who know they must hear one another if they’re going to form concise thoughts and also… so they can put on a good show.
I would argue the art of conversation is not gone, and panels remind the public that to listen to one another is to physically put ideas out into the world and in doing so, educate and change the listeners. “Taking cue from the exhibition Black Pulp! (curated by William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson), Black Pulp! Presents: Satire, Comics and Authorship Panel will examine the unique power of pulp and printed matter to redefine dominant cultural narratives from the Jim Crow Era, Harlem Renaissance, and Black Panther Movement to now.”
The event’s panelists include “Trenton Doyle Hancock, Laylah Ali, & Ariell Johnson (Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse) and is moderated by Michael B. Gillespie, Assoc. Prof. of Film at CCNY and author of Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film.”
Also on Oct. 26th, friend and GAYLETTER contributor Renee Cox is sitting in for a similar event as a part of Randy Cohen’s acclaimed interview series, Person, Place, Thing. Be sure to stop by and have a listen, you never know what you might learn!
(c) Renee Cox. 1998.
