Tiana Reid

'Cane River' and the Black Outdoors

Cane River follows the ups and downs of a conventional romance’s plot of courtship, but the major conflict is the slow but powerful tick of history.

My Quarantine: More Time Now?

Despite the assumption, hostile to me, that we have “more time now,” I still prefer television shows under thirty minutes.

‘Atlantics’ & Migration’s Left-Behind Women

With the focus of a film about the capitalist undercurrent of migration finally and powerfully on Ada, in Africa, Mati Diop’s imaginative feature exemplifies a labor politics fiercely concerned with gender and sexuality.