Terrell Brooke, Suni Jade Reid, Alexandria Florent and Anita Obasi. “That’s what Aunties means to me.” Shout-out from Reid to these L.A. people and places: Trans Defense Fund Los Angeles is an organization that I love. Terrell Brooke, a key figure in the L.A. queer community, considers curating his vibrant and popular events as “mutually nourishing.” As the DJ and …
You don’t need to believe in the generosity of an ancient water deity to be transfixed by Nigerian director C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s folklore melodrama “Mami Wata.” Respecting the conjuring power of movies is all the devotion that’s required to fall under the spell cast by Obasi’s stark, roiling tale of spirit-world mysteries and all-too-human machinations, filmed in an evocatively dense …
