The privilege and pain of admitting you need to quit a decent job
I recently had an experience where I found myself headed toward burnout fast, and I had to recalculate my life. If I didn’t, I was zipping toward a mental health break and that is not something a…
September is National Self-Care Awareness Month and also Suicide Prevention Month. Both of these go hand in hand and are very important topics for discussion in fandoms. The reason is that fandoms have been proven to be beneficial to people experiencing mental illness. The community element and having a support…
COVID-19 has changed the way we live and work as creatives. This is especially true for BIPOC creators who have statistically been the target of the virus, the racism, and also the economic fallout from the pandemic. It is an important time, as we begin to emerge from the pandemic…
I encountered Daniel Lawrence Taylor as Nick on the British IMDb TV show Timewasters. The show premiered on June 11 on IMDb TV (check your Amazon Prime channels).
It follows a group of friends, Nick, Jason (Kadiff Kirwan), Lauren (Adelayo Adedayo), and Horace (Samson Kayo) as they journey, by way…
In the Heights depicts the Latin community of Washington Heights in New York City. I am personally proud that is it releasing at a time when so many people can enjoy this musical look into the culture. Much of this country is still made of spaces where the only brown…
Hollywood has a diversity problem. It’s not the one the industry attempts to tackle every time a “race” issue crops up. On the surface, the job is getting done. Like marketing teams scrambling to make sure that there are black and brown faces in the background crowds and on the…
When my mother “found Jesus,” she changed in more than just her social habits and attire. Somehow, the church had convinced her that we, her children, were the source of her oppression.
Trey and I were especially proof of her sins as we were born out of “the bonds of…
After screening the film The Killing of Two Lovers at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, I had a few questions for composer Peter Albrechtsen. In my review of the film (here), I noted how the “sound” of the film seemed as much character as David and Nikki, the troubled couple…
Executive Order premiered at SXSW 2021, a debut film for director Lazaro Ramos. However, it was not his first time on a set. Ramos has an extensive filmography as an actor in film and the theater. …
