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	Be a part of Migritude's journey. No contribution is too small - or too large. $2 buys coffee for a volunteer. $15 rents a rehearsal studio for an hour. $100 covers 2 hours of lighting / tech / set design. $500 helps fly Shailja to international festivals!! You can also make a tax-deductible donation by check. Please email shailja@shailja.com for details.		my blog Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Secret Life Of Bees Reasons to see the film: 1) The book by Sue Monk Kidd was terrific. Despite my initial misgivings that it would turn out to be just another "mammification-of-Southern-black-women" story. 2) It passes the Bechdel Test 3) It'll get you eating more honey 4) It made me sob, then made me laugh 5) It has a beautiful first-kiss scene. Beautiful as in poignant, crystalline, yet unsentimental. Captures wonder without erasing complexity. And, even more impressive, it stays with us (or with me, at any rate) as a first kiss scene, rather than one of the rare interracial kiss scenes to come out of Hollywood. posted by shailja at 10:22 PM 0 Comments: Post a Comment Links to this post: <$BlogBacklinkTitle$> <$BlogBacklinkSnippet$> posted by <$BlogBacklinkAuthor$> @ <$BlogBacklinkDateTime$> Create a Link << Home Previous Posts Divisadero - Michael Ondaatje Under The Sign of Migritude: Italian Review Ask yourself Go Mandvi! grateful to Colin Powell???? Every Angel Is Terror My first Twitter day BarCamp Africa Reflections Open Space Why does the Kenyan Government need tanks?

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