Eiayay On The Reel

When dealing with the almost daily effects of white supremacy and cultural appropriation, you eventually reach a saturation point. That point is usually what drives my writing. Saturation point was met on a Sunday morning while I was watching CBS Sunday Morning. There was a story about self-taught African American Folk artist, Bill Traylor. He'd been born a slave and lived through the Civil War, Jim Crow segregation and the great migration. The Smithsonian was featuring his art. The morning show interviewed Leslie Umberger, curator and self-taught Folk art expert.She proceeded to interpret what certain images Bill had used in his drawings, symbolized.  I remember thinking: Everything she is saying, is filtered through the white gaze. She was interpreting the meaning behind the images with no frame of reference, no history or intergenerational legacy to draw from. I guess what I really wanted to see, was a Black expert on African American Folk art.  An effort could hav...

It's definitely been a minute. I've been re-accessing & reevaluating goals and changing course, okay, I have been doing that, but I've also been having down time & being lazy. Come on, I'm only human.  I can't be a superstar 24/7 it's tiring  & doesn't leave enough time for binge watching "Smallville".   If you've noticed, this is a new blogspot. That falls under the category of Woes. The email associated with "Eiayay In Reel Life", was deleted, so I have lost access to my blog. Blogspot & Google have been less than helpful. I have tried 932,438 gazillion machinations to regain control. So ifyou would like to read earlier posts you can go here: http://eiayaysreellife.blogspot.com/  As before all photos on this blog and the linked blog are not to be used without permission.  Amidst all the turmoil & upheaval perpetrated by the current administration, social activism has taken a front seat in my life. But...