Hilton Als, Pulitzer prize-winner, critic, and curator of new exhibition God Made my Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin, is very clear when we talk on the phone about his directive, that is, to embody Baldwin both fully and intimately. “Baldwin is someone that I’d been thinking about and writing about for a great deal”, says Als, “but what was missing for me in present-day discussions about him was his body as a queer man of colour and also someone who was very driven by…
Why we need to remember James Baldwin as the complex human he was
By Ayoola Solarin (info@dazedgroup.com)
January 18, 2019 at 04:11AM
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