WoW Festival: Who Owns Our Bodies?
This weekend, I will be one of 128 women to appear at the New York debut of WOW– Women of the World Festival, an international event intended to celebrate women and spark progressive discussion of their rights. Held at the Apollo Theater in Harlem —and open to everyone—the event runs June 11-14 and includes keynotes by Iyanla Vanzant and Naomi Wolf, performances by Macy Gray, Jessica Care Moore, and Toshi Reagon, workshops on Read more...
#CountMeOUT: Wangechi Mutu & Toshi Reagon
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” -Audre Lorde
theHotness celebrates and partners with Black queer women this month in our #CountMeOUT campaign that links African and African-American women– both queer and straight in conversations and hopefully in a movement that expands the ways in which we think about community, activism and sisterhood.
In launching #CountMeOUT, I will present a series of Read more...