Diepiriye Kuku is a New Delhi based Nigerian-American sociologist, public educationist, writer and choreographer from Kentucky.
Features
Friday, June 18 2010
Hitchcock, Zeal and the Velvet Rope
More than almost any other of the great directors, Hitchcock filled his films with characters that are either explicitly or implicitly coded as gay. And almost always as villainous.
Wednesday, September 23 2009
Luther Is Drag: The Death of Vandross
Luther took full ownership of the music. He loved the music and massaged fans’ eyes, ears, and sentiments with his arrangements, taking the plain, factory-produced, mundane regular pop hit to new, unfounded heights.
Monday, July 6 2009
The MJ Top Ten Tribute
The ultimate list of icons to pay performance tribute to THE icon.
Blogs
Friday, May 21 2010
Starfleet Unitards for Women
Trekkie compilations and more cocoa in Starfleet to confront viewers with the show's embedded sexism.
Friday, May 14 2010
Thrills, Trills and Outcasts, But Still No Happy Homo in the 24th Century
Is Star Trek only able to come out on the Internet?
Friday, April 23 2010
"Cop Out": Old Bible Stories / Modern Archetypes
This hero-worship is some old rehashing of Bible stories- the absent omnipotent father who will act as the ultimate punisher, executioner and maker of the law, while still allowing the privileged kid to grow up in heavenly wealth and luxury.
Monday, April 5 2010
Clipping all the difference(s) into patterns of hierarchy all around!
Arg! And here I was just sifting through the current news, looking for health care coverage, but got assaulted with this crap in the headlines.
India's Fair Skin Ambassadors Welcome Hip-Hop's New Dark Knight (video) (Mixed Media) [29.Mar.10]
Big B: The Bollywood rapper & the American star (Mixed Media) [22.Mar.10]
Meshell Ndegeocello: The Sexiest Speaking Voice Alive (Sound Affects) [12.Feb.10]
Those "Crazy Colored People": Reading Race in Mental Health (Sources Say) [22.Jan.10]
What It'd Be Like to Tweet, FB-Update or Podcast Live from the 1963 March on Washington (Sources Say) [21.Jan.10]
Death, Remembrance, the Internet and Immortality (Sources Say) [19.Jan.10]
"Miss Maude, ain’t you glad Florida showed up!" (Channel Surfing) [18.Jan.10]
Happy Blackface Day in German-Speaking Lands! (Sources Say) [6.Jan.10]
Not-So-Tragic-Mulatto's Low Point: Crossing the Color Line in 'The Jeffersons' (Channel Surfing) [7.Dec.09]
Victim's Gay Hero and Modern Marvels of Social Change (Short Ends and Leader) [29.Nov.09]
All Cried Out: A Queer Ear for Blues’ Wailing and Recovery (Sound Affects) [19.Nov.09]
Poitier Portraying Another Magic Negro: She's Blind, So Race Don't Matter (Short Ends and Leader) [19.Nov.09]
Why won't rappers rap about marriage? (Sources Say) [16.Nov.09]
A Dyslexic's Wet Dream: Lift Up and Fly Like a Bird (Sound Affects) [10.Nov.09]
The Navy bla bla bla…but not charged with a hate crime. (Sources Say) [27.Oct.09]
"RE: Raw Video of Derrion Albert 16 teen year old beaten to death ..." (Channel Surfing) [7.Oct.09]
Janet Jackson, Good Times, and the Current Healthcare Debate (Channel Surfing) [6.Oct.09]
Which Way Is Whack: Romanticizing Sexual Harassment (video) (Mixed Media) [5.Oct.09]
'Bending Towards the Sun' and Why Blacks & Jews Must Pray Together (Re:Print) [5.Oct.09]
Combing the Kink Out (video) (Mixed Media) [9.Sep.09]
Unconditional Love: Soul Music Bites Back (Sound Affects) [2.Sep.09]
Black Gay Marriage (Sources Say) [24.Aug.09]
"Why Is Africa Poor?" (Sources Say) [12.Aug.09]
The Legacy of Michael Jackson: "ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma koo sa!" Hand's down! (Sound Affects) [22.Jul.09]
Monsoon Dance (Sound Affects) [20.Jul.09]
Mapped Out on the Body: Michael Jackson’s Vision for Inclusiveness (Sound Affects) [16.Jul.09]
Characteristic of How ‘It’ Goes on the News (Sources Say) [15.Jul.09]
Michael Jackson and Our Vision of Diversity (Sound Affects) [9.Jul.09]
Turn Off the Lights: Cultivating Love to Get Through Summer (Sound Affects) [30.Jun.09]
A Quick Critique of Feminist Critique of Things Fall Apart (Re:Print) [29.Jun.09]
Black Trekkie: Tuning Out to Tune In (Channel Surfing) [18.Jun.09]
Kinship & Collective Fate in Heroes (Channel Surfing) [16.Jun.09]
'Heroes' and the Coming Out Narrative (Channel Surfing) [10.Jun.09]
The Ultimate Penultimate in 'The Color Purple' (Short Ends and Leader) [10.Jun.09]
Peter Pan Makes a Comeback (Sound Affects) [12.May.09]
Feet don’t fail me now: Theme songs for breaking the chains of stereotypes in America (Sound Affects) [30.Apr.09]
Black people doing white people doing Black people. (Mixed Media) [14.Apr.09]
Queering Madonna & stardom: As contradictory as Uncle Tom, except in reverse (Sound Affects) [9.Apr.09]
Why Sasha Fierce is more than just “the female version of the hustler” (Sound Affects) [7.Apr.09]
Old Skewl B.S. aka Morality Police Bite (Sound Affects) [1.Apr.09]
Spidey, Oedipus, Jesus, & Platonic Love (Short Ends and Leader) [30.Mar.09]
Good Grief: Pop, Dialogue and Detroit Natives (Sound Affects) [24.Mar.09]
Janet, Madonna & George's Unpopular Coming Out (Sound Affects) [20.Mar.09]
Hot Buttered Soul: Politics and Pop Culture Are Really One (Sound Affects) [19.Mar.09]
Mississippi Goddamn! and other fire-side chats. (Mixed Media) [17.Mar.09]
Morality and the Principles of Pleasure (Sound Affects) [3.Mar.09]
Blaxploitation & 'Slumdogs Can't Have Dignity' - A Critical Response to Indian Media Coverage (Short Ends and Leader) [25.Feb.09]
Ike might be the 'God of Evil' getting you" Up in Heah!" (video) (Mixed Media) [25.Feb.09]
Feel Good: Ike & Tina live on Soul Train (video) (Mixed Media) [24.Feb.09]
"Zoom, I wish the world were truly happy": Barack and the blues (Sound Affects) [24.Feb.09]
More out than Flip Wilson, Eddie Murphy & Martin Lawrence put together (video) (Mixed Media) [18.Feb.09]
'Sick and Tired' of wife-beaters: Pop violence against women (Sound Affects) [18.Feb.09]
'Irreplaceable' & more attacks on love (Sound Affects) [16.Feb.09]
Postcards from the edge: I was in a cell phone commercial (Sound Affects) [12.Feb.09]
Obama & More Critical Commentary on Cultural Imperialism in 2008's 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' (Short Ends and Leader) [28.Jan.09]
