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Mendi Lewis Obadike is an intermedia artist and cultural critic who writes on sound, savvy, safety, propriety and intimacy through the lens of race and gender. A Cave Canem fellow, her poetry appears in the film Take These Chains, in journals Fence and nocturnes, and in anthologies New Sister Voices and Roll Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art. In March 2001, she curated the United Nations' Dialogue Among Civilizations event in Durham, North Carolina. A PhD candidate in literature at Duke University, Mendi is writing a theory of the black soundscape in printed literature. Her newest web projects are The Sour Thunder (an opera) and "keeping up appearances" (a hypertextimonial). |
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