<p>In 1978, Peoples Temple, a multiracial church once at the forefront of progressive San Francisco politics, self-destructed in a Guyana jungle settlement named after its leader, the Reverend Jim Jones. Fatally bonded by fear of racist annihilation, the community's greatest symbol of crisis was the White Night; a rehearsal of revolutionary mass suicide that eventually led to the deaths of over 900 church members of all ages, genders and sexual orientations. White Nights, Black Paradise focuses on three fictional black women characters who were part of the Peoples Temple movement but took radically different paths to Jonestown: Hy, a drifter and a spiritual seeker, her sister Taryn, an atheist with an inside line on the church's money trail and Ida Lassiter, an activist whose watchdog journalism exposes the rot of corruption, sexual abuse, racism and violence in the church, fueling its exodus to Guyana</p>

White Nights, Black Paradise

<p>Set in a theocratic state where sleep and dreams are policed and manufactured by the multinational, NARCOLEPSY, INC. after a nuclear wipeout. The company’s chief scientist and engineer, Yuri, a queer Black woman, works on an antidote to sleeplessness to correct a racialized caste system of sleepers dominated by white insomniacs</p>

Narcolepsy, Inc: A Web-series

"White Nights, Black Paradise" & "Narcolepsy, Inc: A Web-series"

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