SUPER HUSSY MEDIA
Super Hussy Media: A niche media company that seeks to explore the lives of young women and girls and show them as the more nuanced humans they are, not the stereotypes typically portrayed in mainstream culture. Our projects utilize film, web, print and emerging technology and are intensely personal and through them, we hope to shed light on the contradictions, triumphs, perils, and beauty that is black womanhood. Super Hussy Media is dedicated to exploring the everyday within the global black diaspora, particularly the true lives of young women, girls and families.
THE BLACK GIRL PROJECT
The Black Girl Project: There is a culture of silence in our communities that crosses the lines of class, ethnicity and sexual orientation. Many black girls continue to be bound by the shackles of low self-esteem, fear, and pain. To cope, they begin to drink, drug, sex and practice other self destructive behaviors as early as eight years of age. This film, also the impetus for a non-profit organization of the same name, seeks to portray black girls as the complex beings they are. It also seeks to spark inter and intra-generational dialogue between black girls and women.
OKRA STEW
Okra Stew: An independent multimedia documentary art project that explores race and gender utilizing archival film and music where people of color were conspicuously absent, along with first-person interviews. Okra Stew asks what happens when we position Black culture and stereotypes about Black culture in a two-dimensional world literally devoid of culture? What does it say that Blacks were completely ignored when it came to industrial education, mental health and hygiene and young people? What happens when contemporary Black culture forces its way into the picture? What is your Black experience?
