Sweet and Dandy is an 8-week film series featuring an entertaining mix of documentaries, shorts and narratives complementing both exhibitions on view at Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) The Grace Jones Project and Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity. The films explore how fashion, music and performance are expressions of resistance and pleasure, defying confining interpretations of race and masculinity/femininity in global Black communities.

AFRO-PUNK (66 minutes, 2003, James Spooner). Explores racial identity within the punk scene following the lives of four people who have dedicated themselves to the punk rock lifestyle. They find themselves in conflicting situations, marginalized among Black people who prefer other types of music and living the dual life of a person of color in a mostly white community. The documentary inter-cuts interviews from scores of Black punk rockers from all over the nation. Grace Jones was the head-liner in the 2015 Afro-Punk festival.

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