Twenty Class Tobacco Suits 1998 Interview with Anthony Murrell by John Farris & Steve Cannon

On our mindsChavisa WoodsApril 15, 2019Anthony Murell, John Farris, Steve Cannon, Interview, Twenty Class, A Gathering of The Tribes, Gathering of The Tribes, Tabacco Suits 1998

Grateful to have had Dad

My dad was an anarchist. He could be rough around the edges, often speaking his truth without censure or care for social mores.

But to me he was more than John, the rebel artist. He was my father.

On our mindsChavisa WoodsApril 14, 2016John Farris, Judson memorial church, RIP

Essays and Reviews, Events, Tribes and the CommunityChavisa WoodsFebruary 11, 2016bullet space, David Hammons, John Farris, loisaida, lower east side, ny times, Poetry, sarah ferguson, the villager

Interview of John Farris by Norman Douglas

About, Essays and ReviewsNorman DouglasJanuary 28, 2011community, David Hammons, east village, gathering of the tribes, John Farris, lower east side, norman douglas, Tribes

Interview with Ayana V. Jackson and Marco Villalobos

African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth. And we started it in 2003. But actually the discussion comes back to the day that Marco and I met, when, in a conversation, we started talking about Afro-Mexico. I had studied race relation in Latin America and the Caribbean, and that's where I learned about the African presence in Mexico, and the fact that there were still communities.

Chavisa WoodsSeptember 17, 2006African by Legacy, Ayana JAckson, interview, John Farris, Marco Villobos, Mexican by Birth, Tribes

Swimming In The Barnyard

The peripatetic 'Glory' of the title story of this volume of cyclical stories is Gloria Bronsky, a young HIV positive woman who has contracted this condition through intravenous drug use. Signaling that she is in over her head from the start, Gloria poignantly describes herself in magnificently metaphorical language in the opening story as someone who is "honked" at, "barked" at, "squealed" at and "hissed" at while heading east on Houston Street....

Chavisa WoodsSeptember 17, 2006Drugs, Emily Carter, Glory, HIV, John Farris, Tribes

The Adam Of Two Edens

"A war rages against me, a war rages inside me. Stranger, hang your weapons in our palm tree and let me plant my wheat in Canaan's sacred soil. take wine from my jars ..."

Chavisa WoodsSeptember 17, 2006Adam of Two Edens, Israel, John Farris, Mahmoud Darwish, Poetry, review, Tribes

THE CRITICAL NEGRO

Our country is some kind of a mongrel that is spiritually a chameleon but always remains a bastard. And you can be sure that starting as an American bastard in a world where former European bastards have family lines long enough to make them arrogant is another reason why being authentic might be something of a recurring problem." He goes on: "The elite version of authenticity used to begin above but now has been discredited. Nothing has survived the holocaust of close, close scrutiny, not government, not business, not religion, not ethnicity, not the upper class, not the family, not parenting, not adolescence, not childhood, nothing at all."

Chavisa WoodsSeptember 18, 2006John Farris, lierature, race issues, stanely crouch, Tribes