Finalist Finally! ndlela November 14, 2024 Film Festivals, My Work, My Writings 2024 Scriptation Showcase Script Competition Finalist announcement laurel and graphic After 4 days of recovering from a post-election week that was more brutal on my body/mind/spirit than I thought, this an... Read More...
Parable of the Sower Season Begins? ndlela November 6, 2024 My Videos, My Writings WTF just happened! Like for real, WHAT THE FUCK???????????!!!!!!!!!!!! Cover of Octavia E Butler's Parable of the Sower So we have potentially entered our very own season of Parable of the Sower. As I... Read More...
Lemon Pound Cake ndlela November 3, 2024 Food, My Photos, My Work, My Writings Over the years this lemon pound cake has become one of the (if not my thee) favorite cake that I bake. I have make it for friends, for my students, for events and most importantly for myself(!). I use Emily... Read More...
Farmers’ Market Late October ndlela November 2, 2024 My Photos, My Videos, My Writings I live in a part of The Bronx that some (including me) would call a food desert. More so with grocery stores than with restaurants but it has actually gotten better in the years since I've lived here. &nb... Read More...
Happy NaNoWriMo 2024 ndlela November 1, 2024 My Videos, My Work, My Writings Happy November! How the hell did that get here already? Happy NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) 2024. This year I'm not doing it the traditional way which was to power through and write 50 000 words i... Read More...
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower Year Begins ndlela July 20, 2024 My Writings Photo by Sheila Maldonado We were getting some relief from the holiday weekend heatwave earlier in the month when Sheila talked about how Saturday July 20th, 2024 was the first journal entry date of Octavi... Read More...
30th Anniversary of Freedom Day! ndlela April 27, 2024 General, My Writings Happy Freedom Day!! It is crazy to think that 30 years have passed already. 30 years ago, twenty-year-old me voted for the first time on 26 April 1994 during the first democratic election in South Africa.... Read More...
Sundance 2018 Short Films ndlela January 18, 2018 My Writings, Web Videos Happy Sundance 2018! This year the festival isn't screening as many films online as it usually does. I have embedded a few of the ones that are available below. You will also be able to see some of their... Read More...
HAPPY 2018!!! ndlela January 1, 2018 My Writings So apparently time is still doing that stupid racing-at-the-speed-of-light trick that it does because just like that, 2017 is done and 2018 is upon us. Here are some of the things I will be working on this y... Read More...
Happy Birthday Ibrahim ndlela December 19, 2016 My Writings, Tributes Happy birthday you beach! This is the first birthday without you and it is so hard. It still doesn't make sense to me 1o months later.  Things on this plain have been the worst since you have been gone. It i... Read More...
Here We Go . . . 2011 ndlela January 1, 2011 My Writings 2010! Peace! What a year! I am as happy 2010 is over as I am freaked out that 2011 is here already. Here is to 2011. Here is to a year of creating art/media in spite of the drama we manifest or are dealing... Read More...