Episode 235: The Watermelon Woman

Jun 24, 2020

Summary:

 

"Sometimes you have to create your own history." This week we watch Cheryl Dunye's masterpiece The Watermelon Woman. Also discussed: Code Switch,  Clerks, and the music of Obuxum. 

 

Show notes:

 

You can watch The Watermelon Woman on Criterion for free right now.

 

The Watermelon Woman: The Enduring Cool of a Black Lesbian Classic (Vanity Fair)

 

The Watermelon Woman Shows the Power of Gay History (New Republic)

 

Recommendations:

Lisa: Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis (book)

Andrea W.:  Cheekbone Beauty, Pat McGrath, and Re-Birth by Obuxum (music)

Andrea G.: Code Switch, "Why Now, White People?" (podcast)


Music credits:

"Good Times" by Podington Bear
From Free Music Archive
CC BY 3.0

 

Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod

From Incompetch

CC BY 3.0

Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst

Courtesy of Free Music Archive

CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

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