SEASON FINALE!

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Episode description: Beandrea waves a magic wand over her career and concludes her reflections on the lessons of her Harvard Nieman Fellowship year. Then she chats with Journalist, Critic, Podcaster, Authoress and and Overall Bad Bitch Tre'vell Anderson.

Buy a signed copy of Tre'vell's excellent book: We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film; The audiobook is also very special.

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Thanks for your support of the launch of this project! xo Beandrea

Shoutout to the Annotations Fan Club co-presidents: JZ and Kristi 

Funding for this project comes from  Critical Minded, a grantmaking and learning initiative founded by the Nathan Cummings Foundation and Ford Foundation to support cultural critics of color in the United States. 

Episode description: Beandrea reflects on the role of identity in film criticism with Professor Josephine Kim, Ph.D., with whom she took classes at Harvard's Graduate School of Education during her Nieman Fellowship.

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Film series in Los Angeles (remaining dates: Aug 3, Aug 8, Aug 10, Aug 15, 2025): The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin's Cinema of the Mind. Free and open to the public.

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Funding for this project comes from Critical Minded, a grantmaking and learning initiative founded by the Nathan Cummings Foundation and Ford Foundation to support cultural critics of color in the United States. 

For full show notes and written annotations, subscribe to the companion newsletter.

Film series in Los Angeles (July 25 - Aug 15, 2025): The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin's Cinema of the Mind. Free and open to the public.

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Funding for this project comes from Critical Minded, a grantmaking and learning initiative founded by the Nathan Cummings Foundation and Ford Foundation to support cultural critics of color in the United States. 

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Host Beandrea July sits down with Vulture Magazine critic Angelica Jade Bastien.

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Film series in Los Angeles (July 25 - Aug 15, 2025): The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin's Cinema of the Mind. Free and open to the public.

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