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Waiting Room Magazine / Simone Leigh
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FA.B133.3157
46 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
2014
Robin Coste Lewis, Aimee Meredith Cox, Alondra Nelson, Patricia W. Romero, Willie Lee Rose, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Vanessa Agard-Jones
Health care reform, Nurses, Black, Equality--Health aspects, Health services accessibility
Softcover. Staple bound (saddle stitched). Web press printing on newsprint in purple ink. Contains essays, poetry, and other writings alongside illustrative matter. Published in conjunction with artist Simone Leigh's piece The Free People's Medical Clinic for Creative Time and Weeksville Heritage Center’s Funk, God, Jazz & Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn project.
"The Waiting Room Magazine was created on the occasion of The Free People's Medical Clinic, A temporary installation in the former home of Dr. Josephine English. The author of the clinic and editor of the magazine is Simone Leigh. The Free People's Medical Clinic was produced by Creative Time."--from colophon
"This was the magazine I created for the FPMC, which included contributions by well-known writers and academics who were reflecting on the issues of medicine and self-determination. The magazine is primarily composed of scholarship by and about black women, and features texts by Vanessa Agard-Jones, Naomi Jackson (who addressed the death of Esmin Green), Robin Coste Lewis, Aimee Meredith Cox, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts and Alondra Nelson, who wrote about the painful legacy of Tuskegee. Nontsikelelo Mutiti completed the design. Rhodes-Pitt created “ladies pages” for the magazine. Coste Lewis submitted a poem that describes her discovery of a slave-owning ancestor; Agard-Jones included an excerpt from her paper on sand as a metaphor for the Caribbean and same-sex desire. I also contributed photos of the Muthi market in Durban, a market/apothecary/pharmacy that is as long and wide as a city block. In this market, as in many markets I have visited in African and diasporic communities, the idea of medicine is bigger than pharmacology for the body."--from 2014 ArtNews interview with Simone Leigh, accessed July 10, 2024
Table of Contents: Waiting Room / A. Naomi Jackson -- Felicité / Robin Coste Lewis -- Move / Aimee Meredith Cox -- The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the Black Panther Party / Alondra Nelson -- A Black Woman's Civil War Memoirs / Edited by Patricia W. Romero and Willie Lee Rose -- From the Desk of the Freedwomen's Bureau / Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts -- What the Sands Remember / Vanessa Agard-Jones
"The Waiting Room Magazine was created on the occasion of The Free People's Medical Clinic, A temporary installation in the former home of Dr. Josephine English. The author of the clinic and editor of the magazine is Simone Leigh. The Free People's Medical Clinic was produced by Creative Time."--from colophon
"This was the magazine I created for the FPMC, which included contributions by well-known writers and academics who were reflecting on the issues of medicine and self-determination. The magazine is primarily composed of scholarship by and about black women, and features texts by Vanessa Agard-Jones, Naomi Jackson (who addressed the death of Esmin Green), Robin Coste Lewis, Aimee Meredith Cox, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts and Alondra Nelson, who wrote about the painful legacy of Tuskegee. Nontsikelelo Mutiti completed the design. Rhodes-Pitt created “ladies pages” for the magazine. Coste Lewis submitted a poem that describes her discovery of a slave-owning ancestor; Agard-Jones included an excerpt from her paper on sand as a metaphor for the Caribbean and same-sex desire. I also contributed photos of the Muthi market in Durban, a market/apothecary/pharmacy that is as long and wide as a city block. In this market, as in many markets I have visited in African and diasporic communities, the idea of medicine is bigger than pharmacology for the body."--from 2014 ArtNews interview with Simone Leigh, accessed July 10, 2024
Table of Contents: Waiting Room / A. Naomi Jackson -- Felicité / Robin Coste Lewis -- Move / Aimee Meredith Cox -- The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the Black Panther Party / Alondra Nelson -- A Black Woman's Civil War Memoirs / Edited by Patricia W. Romero and Willie Lee Rose -- From the Desk of the Freedwomen's Bureau / Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts -- What the Sands Remember / Vanessa Agard-Jones
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