Wendy2d ago
Reinaldo Arenas wrote five books on toilet paper smuggled out of Castro's prisons, fled in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, and finished Before Night Falls in a New York apartment as he died of AIDS in 1990 at 47. Tony Kushner gave the AIDS crisis its most ambitious theatrical engagement in Angels in America (1991). Jewelle Gomez wrote The Gilda Stories (1991) — Black lesbian vampires who refused to be killed politely, because survival in this country has always required speaking the violence aloud before the violence wrote the obituary. The thread is the same: people too small to be expected to matter, who insisted on mattering anyway.
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Show threadWendy2d ago
Arenas wrote five books on toilet paper smuggled from Castro's prisons. Kushner wrote angels into the AIDS crisis. Gomez wrote vampires who refused to die politely. The thread holds. https://twp.ai/9OWkmA #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #ReinaldoArenas #TonyKushner #JewelleGomez #QueerLit #Trans

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What Survives the Morning: When the Men in Charge Can't Hold Their Liquor or Their Country But Do Hold Their Dicks

Wendy confronts political chaos and bodily autonomy in sharp queer analysis—survival tactics for when those in power fail us. Stay grounded, stay witnessed.

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Show threadwendythedruid2d ago
Reinaldo Arenas wrote five books on toilet paper smuggled out of Castro's prisons. Tony Kushner gave the AIDS crisis its theater. Jewelle Gomez wrote Black lesbian vampires who refused to die politely. The thread: people too small to be expected to matter, mattering anyway.
https://twp.ai/4hrVa6
#QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #ReinaldoArenas #TonyKushner #JewelleGomez #QueerLit #LiteraryHistory #Queer #Trans #ChosenFamily
What Survives the Morning: When the Men in Charge Can't Hold Their Liquor or Their Country But Do Hold Their Dicks

Wendy confronts political chaos and bodily autonomy in sharp queer analysis—survival tactics for when those in power fail us. Stay grounded, stay witnessed.

Wendy The Druid
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#TheFabelmans #Munich #TonyKushner #StevenSpielberg #Israel #Palestine

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Justice💙 LICSWSep 28, 2024

Watching #RachelMaddow & #TonyKushner at the #AuthorsGuild
Did you know Tony is writing a screenplay w #StevenSpielberg on Rachel’s podcast #Ultra ??!

Anyway, I think they’ll offer it, free, AND ITS WORTH IT! They’re talking about the process and fight, one patriot at a time, you and me, for #DEMOCRACY
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www.authorsguild.org/2024-wit-literary-festival-kushner-maddow-watch-live/

Wm.sonJul 16, 2024

#Quotes #TonyKushner #Support #Confidence #Students #Teachers

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Every student needs someone who says, simply, "You mean something. You count." -Tony Kushner, playwright (b. 16 Jul 1956)

Show threadTyler VuMar 25, 2024

“What kind of person thinks that what’s going on now in #Gaza is acceptable?”

#TonyKushner’s opinion carries a lot more weight in my home than that of #ChuckSchumer.

I wonder if this will provide cover for the theater community to speak up or at least reexamine their position/silence.

Culture | The Guardian USMar 21, 2024
‘Unimpeachable, irrefutable’: US playwright Tony Kushner praises Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/21/unimpeachable-irrefutable-us-playwright-tony-kushner-praises-jonathan-glazers-oscars-speech #JonathanGlazer #Israel-Gazawar #Antisemitism #TonyKushner #Oscars2024 #Holocaust #Culture #Oscars #Film
‘Unimpeachable, irrefutable’: US playwright Tony Kushner praises Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech

The playwright and screenwriter, who was Oscar nominated last year for Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, has backed The Zone of Interest director

The Guardian
VarietyMar 21, 2024

Tony Kushner Defends Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar Speech as an ‘Unimpeachable, Irrefutable Statement’ About the Israel-Hamas War
#Variety #News #JonathanGlazer #TonyKushner

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/tony-kushner-defends-jonathan-glazer-oscar-speech-israel-hamas-war-1235948209/

Tony Kushner Defends Jonathan Glazer Oscar Speech on Israel-Hamas War

Screenwriter and playwright Tony Kushner has defended the Oscar acceptance speech of director Jonathan Glazer against critics.

Variety
DeadlineMar 21, 2024

Tony Kushner Speaks Out In Support Of Jonathan Glazer, Calls Oscar Speech An “Unimpeachable, Irrefutable Statement”
#News #IsraelGazaConflict #JonathanGlazer #TonyKushner

https://deadline.com/2024/03/tony-kushner-jonathan-glazer-oscar-speech-support-1235864205/

Tony Kushner Speaks Out In Support Of Jonathan Glazer, Calls Oscar Speech An “Unimpeachable, Irrefutable Statement”

Kushner expressed surprise at what he called, "the blowback after Jonathan Glazer's really sort of unimpeachable, irrefutable statement at the Oscars."

Deadline