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	<title>Black Looks &#187; Film</title>
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		<title>Transsexual is not a democratic choice</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/transsexual-is-not-a-democratic-choice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mia Nikasimo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabrielle Le Roux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proudly Trans Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transgender stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Self-acceptance as the 18 transsexuals in this video blog attest is not a democratic choice. Rather it is an individual&#8217;s decision. These courageous people exlode a number of gender myths. Indeed, these are exciting time to be transgerder in Turkey but as is apparent on some of the faces some of us transsexuals fght daily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Gold: &#8220;We are rebels of the struggle&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/black-gold-we-are-rebels-of-the-struggle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Gold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shell Guilty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Black Gold: The Struggle of the Niger Delta&#8221; is a feature film written and directed by Nigerian filmmaker, Jeta Amata. Based on the film synopsis, Black Gold sounds fairly straightforward. A  community protests against multinational oil companies and the Nigerian government but to little effect. Enter militants and war is declared. Its not possible to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From colonial dependence to petro dependence:  A video window into the colonial past</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/from-colonial-dependence-to-petro-dependence-a-video-window-into-the-colonial-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Three Roads to Tomorrow &#8211; a BP promotional film uses three students from the three different regions of Nigeria to depict the transition from the past to the modernity &#8211; from colonial dependence to petro dependence.      And the trains ran too.  I even suspect there was electricity or at least there weren&#8217;t any generators. View the film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the ruins of the majestic Cathédrale Notre-Dame de L&#8217;Assomption</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/in-the-ruins-of-the-majestic-cathedrale-notre-dame-de-lassomption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Broken Stones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cathédrale Notre-Dame de L'Assomption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti Earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pott-au-Prince]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Destroyed on 12thJanuary, 2010, the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de L&#8217;Assomption remains majestic, it&#8217;s pink and cream walls towering over the city of Port-au-Prince. The Cathédrale is now open to the sky &#8211; a direct view to the mythical heavens. It remains a place of refuge to thousand of Port-au-Prince residents.  In December 2010, I walked through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A history to remember: &#8220;Who says being queer is unAfrican?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/a-history-worth-noting-who-says-being-queer-is-unafrican/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In “The frightful development of this vice amongst the Natives”: Who says being queer is unAfrican?&#8221; Zackie Achmat traces the role of missionaries and the colonial state in the control and disciple of the African male body. He begins with a brief account of his own imprisonment at the age of 16 where he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with the cast of Pray the Devil Back to Hell</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/interview-with-the-cast-of-pray-the-devil-back-to-hell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/interview-with-the-cast-of-pray-the-devil-back-to-hell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence against women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pray the Devil Back to Hell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Pray the Devil Back to Hell&#8221; Robtel Pailey interviews the cast and members of the production team. The film is available in full on PBS along with four other films in the series &#8220;Women War and Peace&#8220;. Listen here]]></description>
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		<title>Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/audre-lorde-the-berlin-years/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/audre-lorde-the-berlin-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audre Lorde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Lesbian Feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[documentary film]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9096</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cannot wait for this&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. &#160; Scheduled to make its world premiere in the Panorama Documentary section is Dagmar Shultz&#8217;s Audre Lorde &#8211; The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 is an untold chapter (the Berlin years) of the late writer, poet and activist, Caribbean child of immigrants from Grenada, who died rather young at 58 years old in 1992. Specifically, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A film by Nikyatu Jusu</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/a-film-by-nikyatu-jusu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/a-film-by-nikyatu-jusu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nikyatu Jusu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War Conflict]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9084</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was excited to come across [Via Shadow and Act] &#8220;Say Grace Before Drowning&#8221; a film by Sierra Leonean/American Nikyatu Jusu. The film tells the story about a woman&#8217;s struggle to overcome the insanity of war as she tries to adjust to a life in exile. Whatever positive expectations Grace had about her new life, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lists: Black film</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/lists-black-film/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/lists-black-film/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Film 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miriam Makeba]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=8651</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Persevere it gets better&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. Via Shadow and Act]]></description>
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		<title>Nollywood: Nkiru</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/nollywood-nkiru/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/nollywood-nkiru/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nkiru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nollywood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have habitually shied away from Nollywood except when forced by by my niece who is an obsessive Nollier and must have the largest collection ever. Now I have an assignment to watch Nollywood movies. This is the first of many! Nkiru, is 12 minute supernatural thriller premiering on the 18th December. Here&#8217;s the blurb [...]]]></description>
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