Tiana Reid

‘I Was Mobile’

In her photographs of the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, held in Lagos in 1977, Marilyn Nance captured moments of reprieve amid the spectacle. 

'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.