Onajide | artist

The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder:
“Psychiatrists voted in 1973 that being gay was not an illness. Fine. But we vote about whether something is an illness?… more
In the early 1970s, annual meetings of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) were home to angry showdowns between the gay rights [...]

Diversity at the Florida university system isn’t talked much about in my circles. But, certainly other things are. Isn’t it interesting the number of African American art faculty from around the state? I wonder what the real percentages are. Does it matter? Well, of course, it matters and for as well to know there is [...]

This is good. Having lived through all the personal and scholarly debates regarding ancient Egyptians ancestry, some scientific evidence would be interesting to see. I would like to see that evidence compared the other populations around the continent. If that ancient culture spread toward the Mediterranean, why would it not spread south. African scholars have [...]

I actually watched this last night, Sunday. The LOUISE T BLOUIN INSTITUTE is associated with Artinfo.com and its various art publications, a virtual empire in publishing. However, the Institute looks interesting from its programming and exhibition space. This lecture was part of a series that focuses on science and art based on recent studies that [...]

When I was young my family moved to Los Angeles, Calif. Every summer we’d travel by car back east of the Mississippi to visit relatives. Of course, we drove through Arizona passing the Roden Crater, now the lifetime sculpture project of James Turrell, and the meteor crater that was one mile wide. Something that large [...]