Robert K Stephen (CSW)

RKS Literature: Wondering About Love (James Baldwin)

“So then, for the first time, I wondered about love and wondered if I would find strength to give love, and to take it: to accept my nakedness as sacred, and to hold sacred the nakedness of another. For without love, pleasure’s inventions are soon exhausted. There must be a soul within the body youContinue reading “RKS Literature: Wondering About Love (James Baldwin)”

RKS 2023 Film: “The Mission”: Same Old Story of Christian Kamikaze Imperialism

John Chau was an American Christian zealot, most likely affected by the Messiah Complex. This 26 year old man in his twenties was, pardon the expression, “hellbent” on heading to the North Sentinel Island, an Indian possession, to bring the word of “his” saviour to the heathen and dangerous hunters and gatherers populating the island.Continue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “The Mission”: Same Old Story of Christian Kamikaze Imperialism”

RKS Literature: New York is No Mistake (James Baldwin)

“Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent. Whereas other cities flaunt their history-their presumed glory-in vividly placed monuments, squares, parks, plaques, and boulevards, such history as New YorkContinue reading “RKS Literature: New York is No Mistake (James Baldwin)”

RKS 2023 Film: “Failure to Protect”: Criminals Having More Rights Than Parents in the Web of Child Protective Services: State Child Abduction a.k.a. “Protective Custody”

“Failure to Protect”, although dealing with California’s Child Protective Services (CPS), has wider implications than simply Californian juvenile protection. It may apply to many jurisdictions in Europe and North America. The doc follows five parents throughout the state of California as they fight through the child protection regime in California to reunite with their stateContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Failure to Protect”: Criminals Having More Rights Than Parents in the Web of Child Protective Services: State Child Abduction a.k.a. “Protective Custody””

RKS 2023 Television: APTN’s Season Two of 7thGen: Snapshot of Episodes 1-3

It was Crazy Horse that said, “I see a time of 7 generations when all the colours of mankind will gather under the sacred tree of life and the whole earth will become one circle again.” Eagle Vision and APTN’s factual series 7TH GEN returns for season two with ten new episodes featuring some of the mostContinue reading “RKS 2023 Television: APTN’s Season Two of 7thGen: Snapshot of Episodes 1-3”

RKS 2023 Wine: A Wine From the Former Land of Rotgut

Languedoc wines years ago had a very poor reputation as cheap rotgut for the Parisian working class. Yes, apparently it was even blended with wine from the French colony Algeria. Fast forward to today where modernization and agricultural improvements have wiped out Languedoc’s reputation as the land of rotgut. Prices are generally affordable. Quality isContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: A Wine From the Former Land of Rotgut”

RKS 2023 Film: “Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person”

Do you like vampire movies? That alone should fuel your desire to watch “Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person” which is Montreal director Ariane Louis-Seize’s first feature length film and pardon the pun but a “bloody” good one! Sasha (Sara Montpetit) is a 68-year-old teen vampire living with her vampire family but she has oneContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person””

RKS Literature: Drafting a Black Man to Fight in Korea: White People Have no Shame

“I didn’t want nine toes, I wanted all ten, and I had fucking well had no eyes for Korea. I didn’t see what right I would have to be there, what right anybody had to send my black ass there. I don’t think anybody can really hate his country, I don’t think that is possible;Continue reading “RKS Literature: Drafting a Black Man to Fight in Korea: White People Have no Shame”

RKS 2023 Film : Hot Docs Citizen Minutes: “Mind Check 1-2 1-2”: Hip Hopping Into The Eye of the Anxiety Storm!

Citizen Minutes is a collection of Canadian short documentaries highlighting ordinary Canadians doing extraordinary things “to make their communities better places” at least according to Hot Docs. The series of shorts will be playing in select Canadian cities. “Mind Check 1-2 1-2” is a short documentary in which hip hopper Ian Keteku known as AKContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film : Hot Docs Citizen Minutes: “Mind Check 1-2 1-2”: Hip Hopping Into The Eye of the Anxiety Storm!”

“RKS 2023 Film”: Hot Docs Citizen Minutes: “Do You Hear What I Hear”: Noise Noise Go Away and Don’t Come Back Any Day!

Citizen Minutes is a collection of Canadian short documentaries highlighting ordinary Canadians doing extraordinary things “to make their communities better places” at least according to Hot Docs. The series of shorts will be playing in select Canadian cities. “Do You Hear What I Hear” is a short documentary in which writer and director Cat MillsContinue reading ““RKS 2023 Film”: Hot Docs Citizen Minutes: “Do You Hear What I Hear”: Noise Noise Go Away and Don’t Come Back Any Day!”