"Many of the performers sought lawsuits against [director Jennie] Livingston. Paris Dupree, whose name and annual ball originated the film's title and who is credited as a pioneer of vogue dance, filed suit unsuccessfully for $40 million."
- Legacy Russell, Black Meme via @versobooks.bsky.social
*** Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle award for Criticism ***Through imagery, memory, and technology, BLACK MEME shows us how images of Blackness have always been central to our underst...
"LaBeija and many others lived and died with their cultural contributions as viral contributions, but economically unsung. Paris is Burnibg took $500k took to create, but it grossed $3.8 million in theaters in the US…
Livingston… paid around $55,000 spread across thirteen performers." - L.R.
