Blood Beats: Vol. 1 “[It] tells a story that

“[It] tells a story that laughs and cries and sings and celebrates

an advocacy organization and writer’s festival for LGBT writers of African descent

love conjure/blues considers a range of possibilities of gender expression and sexuality within a southern/rural/ Black working class context that examines the blues as a way of life/as ritual—in concert with Ancient practices and new creations

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co-compiler and co-publisher (with Vintage Entity Press) of Carry the Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books

Blood Beats: Vol. 1 “[It] tells a story thatby Ernest Hardy Writing from a critical center that is melanin based feminist pro queer unabashedly leftist, LA based writer Ernest Hardy (a Sundance Fellow and member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Vibe, the LA Times, the LA Weekly and more) pens essays, interviews and reviews whose subject matter ranges from underground hip hop and American indie film to modern French cinema, from revealing