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Quietly Subversive: Malcolm in the Middle

July 13, 2017July 13, 2017 Chris SunamiIdentity

Bryan Cranston became a superstar playing a kindly suburban teacher turned deadly drug kingpin on the hit AMC show Breaking Bad, but before that he was best known as Hal, the emotional center to Fox[…]

Reconstructivist Art: The Lion King

July 6, 2017July 7, 2017 Chris SunamiPlays and Musicals

In honor of the 20th anniversary of the Lion King‘s premiere on Broadway (July 8, 1997) please enjoy this repost of an essay about it as an exemplar of Reconstructivist Art. Along with “The Princess[…]

The Justice Trilogy

June 29, 2017June 30, 2017 Chris SunamiLiterature

Growing up as a non-white kid who read science-fiction and fantasy almost exclusively, finding books with characters who looked like me was not an easy task. Ursula Le Guin’s famous protagonist Ged (A Wizard of[…]

Wiley Reconsidered

June 8, 2017June 7, 2017 Chris SunamiArt

A Response to the Toledo Art Museum Retrospective My first encounter with the work of artist Kehinde Wiley was in 2006, when the Columbus Museum of Art commissioned his first significant museum show. At the[…]

Image by Artist Jai

Some of my best friends are Blackish

April 6, 2017April 5, 2017 Chris SunamiPolitics

In the course of any cross-cultural relationship, there comes an inevitable crisis point, where actual cultural differences and differences in experience become significant. This crisis point can be particularly acute when there are underlying sociopolitical[…]

Image by Serena Kuo

The New Black Cinema: Moonlight

March 23, 2017March 22, 2017 Chris SunamiBest

My wife had one major concern going into Moonlight. “Is it going to be ‘gay Precious‘?” For the record, I was a fan of Precious, the Oscar nominated story of an obese black teenager who[…]

From the Columbus Dispatch

April Sunami, artist extraordinaire

February 16, 2017February 23, 2017 Chris SunamiArt

As many of you know, my wife is Columbus artist April Sunami. Twelve years ago (when I first shared with her that memorable last name!) she wasn’t nearly so well known. It’s been a pleasure[…]

image by Barry Blitt

The End of Racism and Sexism

December 29, 2016 Chris SunamiHumor

Retrieved from Googlepedia May 5th, 2042 When Donald J. Trump was elected, 26 years ago, even his most ardent supporters didn’t anticipate the dawn of a new, post-racist, post-sexist society. After all, in electing him,[…]

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Quietly Subversive: Malcolm in the Middle

Reconstructivist Art: The Lion King

The Justice Trilogy

Wiley Reconsidered

Some of my best friends are Blackish

The New Black Cinema: Moonlight

April Sunami, artist extraordinaire

The End of Racism and Sexism