2/28/18 review of documentary Whose Streets?, dir. by Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the film Whose Streets?, directed by Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis.

The thread gives a summary of the documentary, one of the best films of the decade, which is about Ferguson, Missouri, in the wake of the murder of Michael Brown, Jr., by police in August of 2014. The thread discusses how the film examines communities, living in communities, media versus communities, how communities heal, questioning unjust realities, the generational fight for justice, and the need to just get out there and be involved.

The tweets in some of my threads have been twisted out of chronological order by Twitter's platform. This thread's coherency is slightly affected. My apologies.

1/13/16 preview of reading of Ashraf Fayadh's poetry

(Image source: https://www.globalrights.info/2017/01/75775/)

Here is the link to my Twitter thread preview of a reading of Ashraf Fayadh's poetry.

Ashraf Fayadh is a Palestinian poet who was jailed in Saudi Arabia in 2016. The International Literature Festival Berlin staged readings of Fayadh's poetry around the world in solidarity with Fayadh. I had the honor of staging the Denver, Colorado reading. This thread discusses Fayadh's situation as a preview of that reading.

This reading was staged at RedLine Contemporary Art Center in Denver, Colorado.