So I experienced Slave Play at the John Golden Theatre yesterday, and I’m still processing. But given that it took me forever to process Fairview, I have decided to just get my thoughts out there and not add to my “to blog” backlog. Where to start? Basics! Slave Play, which opened on Broadway in September […]
“She The People”: A Review
It’s not always that I have a laugh-out-loud Tuesday evening. But that’s exactly what the fearlessly hilarious women of The Second City’s “She The People: The Resistance Continues!” delivered this week at the Woolly Mammoth in Washington DC. “She The People” is an intelligent improv and sketch comedy featuring a diverse but all-female cast that […]
Boys Will Be Boys & Girls Just Have To Deal With It
Growing up in the 1980s in communist East Berlin our filmography came from decades past. Joy came from actors such as Terence Hill & Bud Spencer and Louis de Funès who my sisters and I affectionately called Big Nose. Inger Nilsson’s Pippi Langstrumpf showed us spunk, strength, and common sense. But then there was the […]
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
Nadia Hashimi is an Afghan-American paediatrician who in this her début novel tells the story of two young Afghan women, Rahima and her great-great grandmother Shekiba, a century apart (2007 – 1900), united by gender, who at some point in their lives have each become a bacha posh, a girl who dresses as a boy […]
Why I Am Not a Fan of the Fearless Girl Statue
Overnight, a bronze “Fearless Girl” was erected staring down at the famous charging bull on Wall Street. It is the advertising conception of an investment firm, State Street Global Advisors, whose leadership team is less than 10 percent women. Erected on the eve of International Women’s Day, March 8th, it is designed to celebrate “the […]
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
After forcing myself to read 1984 because it is the book of 2017, it was a breath of fresh air to read Isabel Allende‘s Island Beneath the Sea, which is essentially my kind of book. It is one of those historical multi-generational family epics. It tells the story of Zarité (Tété), a mulatto woman born […]
Women’s March on Washington 2017
So I just got home from the Women’s March on Washington D.C. Wow! Let me just start by saying that the atmosphere in D.C. today was energetic, boisterous, busy, and squished, as compared to yesterday (Trump’s inauguration). I’m so proud of women around the world, the thousands who gathered as far away as Antarctica, and […]
Stanford Rapist Father Speaks, Infuriates Us Further
First, there was the rape. Then there was the leniency because “a prison sentence would have a severe impact” on the rapist. Then there was the heart-wrenching statement from the woman who was raped who has been given no options but to live with the severe impact of the rape, the victim-blaming trial, and of […]
Eclipsed – The Stories of African Women on Broadway
It was cold, miserable, and rainy this past Saturday but that did not deter my sisters, a couple friends and myself from lining up to watch Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway. It’s a play which in short tells the story of women having to make difficult choices for survival […]
Next time it is you!
It is 7/27/2015 which means it is finally over. My sister’s wedding that is. The planning began years ago, even before she met the man she was to wed back in 2009. It went into high gear when he proposed last year. I haven’t been involved except to get my orders to walk in her […]
A lover of mangoes. A woman - smart, without pretense, lefthanded, Afropolitan - navigating this thing called life. An unapologetic believer in social justice and karma. Choosing to radiate positive energy and be true to myself. Here, my musings.