Jan. 29th, 2022

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Wole Talabi posted My Favorite African Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Fiction of 2021.

I read Undercurrency by Sam Beckbessinger and liked it. There were a couple of moments where I worried it was about to turn darker than I'm comfortable with, but it always veered back from that. A woman main character, navigating the conflicts inherent in being a powerful woman along with the conflicts inherent in trying to make a profit while caring for the planet.
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This Baba / Тази баба "This Grandmother," a half-hour video about Penka Encheva made in 2014.
This film is a story of one grandma who was an extraordinary traditional singer as a young woman in her native country of Bulgaria. She had dreams becoming a professional singer, but her path led her to become a teacher instead. In 2010. At age of 67, she come to America to live with her daughter’s family and help care for her two young grandsons. Penka’s is a universal story of grandmothers from every country across the globe who are divided between here and there, isolated by a lack of English, stuck in suburbs, missing their friends and loved ones back home. However, Penka found new life with a choir, Bulgarian Voices of Seattle, and is now making her dreams come true.

Produced by Mary Sherhart
Directed by Bogdan Darev
Featuring Penka Encheva

In Bulgarian language with integrated English subtitles.


I saw Penka sing as part of the release of this movie, but I haven't seen the movie. They recently posted it to youtube. Saving it here because I don't have time to watch it right now, and I want to get back to it.

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