CUT Project “process undermines ‘Black brute’ narrative” — Peninsula Daily News

Two Black men wearing t-shirts face each other in an exercise of platonic closeness

Kingsya Omega and Ben Wilson do a “scratch” holding session in “Dark and Tender: The Big Island"; photo by Aliko Weste

PORT TOWNSEND — How can we collectively preserve and create spaces for Black men’s tenderness in America?

That is the question posed at the end of the credits of “Dark and Tender: The Big Island,” directed by workshop facilitator Aaron Johnson.

The short documentary also contains the seed of an answer.
— Elijah Sussman, Peninsula Daily News
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