As a youngster, I spent years wondering why in A View To A Kill James Bond was boning a man. Grace Jones played the androgynous villainess ‘May Day’, whom according to the writers was ‘the product of a Nazi genetic breeding experiment which gave children great strength and intelligence at the expense of making them psychopathic’. Assuming that engineering a race of angry, superhuman black people was top of the Nazi agenda, it was as plausible a backstory for unearthly diva Jones as any other. (via Grace Jones - Hurricane Dub / Releases / Releases // Drowned In Sound)
Stuff I find. And like. Obviously.
When I set out to make a documentary about black women who are “transitioning”...
THICKNESS #3 cover by Edie Fake (type & logo by Michael DeForge)
Debuting at CAKE - June 16,...
From the first print of “Der Doktor Faustus” by German poet Heinrich Heine
A young Dorothy Dandridge with a group of beauty queens in the 1940s. Photo: Clyde Woods.