Blood Beats: Vol. 1by Ernest Hardy Writing from a critical center that is melanin based feminist pro queer unabashedly leftist, LA based writer Ernest Hardy (a Sundance Fellow and member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Vibe, the LA Times, the LA Weekly and more) pens essays, interviews and reviews whose subject matter ranges from underground hip hop and American indie film to modern French cinema, from revealing

a seminal collection of writings by black gay men

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