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Meet Elizabeth Koke: "Do what you gotta do to get paid..."

Meet Elizabeth Koke: "Do what you gotta do to get paid...":

thefeministpress:

This week we had the opportunity to sit down with Elizabeth Koke, the Feminist Press’s External Relations Manager. Elizabeth grew up in the suburbs of Long Island and has been living in the city since she graduated college. She went Smith College and then moved back to New York to attend New…

It’s hard to convey what it means to me to see the new...

It’s hard to convey what it means to me to see the new Fela doc, Finding Fela. I got to see him perform a few times during my stay in Nigeria back in the day, and the arresting memory of him has stayed with me across the decades; no surprise that he found his way into my new novel. I’m so thrilled that the world is getting to know better who Fela was, and what he meant to post-colonial, African revolution.

Here’s a review I wrote of the film.  Go see it!

"She could feel the pulse of the music inside her, could feel...

"She could feel the pulse of the music inside her, could feel her limbs elongate, could hear small little rhythms inside the big ones….Fela would pause from playing his sax and direct the audience to "Say yeah, yeah!" Angie yelled back, "Yeah, yeah!" with such gusto that her throat hurt for hours afterward."

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My father and me.Here’s an NPR interview with #EdLGordon,...

My father and me.

Here’s an NPR interview with #EdLGordon, discussing my two favorite subjects: Detroit and Daddy:

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=4855420&m=4855437