tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33035271550940772602024-03-14T01:31:27.990-07:00Pamela SneedPamela Sneedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204992644076802581noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303527155094077260.post-33823464312211550432009-01-22T12:23:00.000-08:002009-01-22T12:27:50.064-08:00Beauty and the Beat by Hilton Als<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/12/04/061204gore_GOAT_recordings2">The New Yorker</a> 2006<br /><br />Pamela Sneed is a six-foot-three-inch-tall black woman with a shaved head, a big smile, and a wily sense of humor. Born and raised outside <st1:city st="on">Boston</st1:City>, she began making a name for herself in <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:State> in the early nineties as a writer at poetry slams and other performance-art venues while teaching at Hetrick-Martin, an organization for gay, lesbian, and transgendered youth. There and elsewhere, Sneed gave voice to the fraction of the city’s population suffering from AIDS, poverty, and bias-related crimes. In her new performance piece, “Kong,” at Long Island University’s Kumble Theatre, in Brooklyn, on Tuesdays Dec. 5-19, Sneed the activist tackles—from a distinctly and delightfully partisan point of view—our contemporary American cinema as it relates or, more specifically, doesn’t relate to race. And she’s taking on Katrina and our health-care system, while she’s at it. Gorgeous in her lack of restraint, Sneed has a voice—she earns a little money on the side doing voice-overs—that sounds like a cello, but a cello that’s interested only in dissonance, not the sound of mourning.<br /></span>Pamela Sneedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204992644076802581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303527155094077260.post-20223378639517360932008-09-14T22:12:00.000-07:002008-09-14T22:14:47.867-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt3ZVuRcqrFrSl1saPBhVg_LFvJJnz0lQz_pH9ZasCztTcyyu4YWL74ababTndYLHvwECCK51UuGbksws4nNlcxt114W-79orQ4QqmOMw04XsYjvwwMH4nm5u5eWPb91n9rC8MvFzV_n0/s1600-h/KONG3.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt3ZVuRcqrFrSl1saPBhVg_LFvJJnz0lQz_pH9ZasCztTcyyu4YWL74ababTndYLHvwECCK51UuGbksws4nNlcxt114W-79orQ4QqmOMw04XsYjvwwMH4nm5u5eWPb91n9rC8MvFzV_n0/s320/KONG3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246112187947338242" /></a>Pamela Sneedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204992644076802581noreply@blogger.com0