Earlier this year, audiences at the Woolly Mammoth experienced a vision of Islam seen through the lens of queerness in Adil Mansoor’s touching “Amm(i)gone,” a solo performance about how he’s been translating Sophocle’s “Antigone” into Urdu with his Pakistani mother. (“Ammi” refers to “mother” in…
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Desecration of Bethesda African cemetery destroys culture and spirituality of descendents
It wouldn’t be far-fetched to say that DC is built on top of bones–the bones of first nations people, and later, of kidnapped African citizens. One desecrated burial site around Bethesda’s River Road about a mile northwest of DC is sacred to the descendants of…