What kind of monster kicks Paul Robeson out of a hotel?!
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Never get into an argument with a dude that’s already missing teeth, he’s literally got nothing to lose
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Eyes are always in danger when you’re in an avant-garde film
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It’s all fun and avant-garde games until someone gets cut
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Paul Robeson and his wife & manager of 22 years, Eslanda “Essie” Goode Robeson (also pictured is their son, Paul Jr.)
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Oh, early 20th century avant-garde artists, you would have loved the advent of triphop music
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“Borderline” (1930) is kind of clunky on racial & queer politics in a weird way. It was made by an all white queer creative team who seemingly use the idea of queer & interracial couples as part of the “shock bourgeois sensibilities” element of early 20th century, European avant-garde art but in doing so they still manage to invite laughter at the bourgeois & the sensibilities of those who were shocked by the frank depiction of queer and POC folx in it
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And now our Feature Presentation: “Borderline” (1930) featuring poet Robert Herring and The romantic teams of Astrologer/Sexologist/Nepobaby (Chester A. Arthur’s grandson) Gavin & Charlotte Arthur, the esteemed Eslanda & Paul Robeson and writers HD (AKA Hilda Doolittle) & Bryher (AKA Annie Winifred Ellerman)
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