It's time to polish your Gucci boots for this satirical Black, Western comedy as Heyd and Erin discuss Blazing Saddles with Naima Lowe, a Tulsa-based artist who embraced this movie with her dad as one of her childhood favorites. Naima offers her insightful reflections as an artists who is able to see the film as a Black, queer, womanish person with insights into topics such as miscegenation, cowboys of color and masculinity tropes. In the spirit of Mel Brooks and Richard Pryer, this episode will leave your head spinning as we lasso the history of Western films, squeezing them into a schnitzengruben! Tangents include: dick jokes, Hollywood queerness, Gene Wilder's hair, Hays Code, Obamacare, Black rodeos, combining humor and melancholy For more information about Naima's studio practice, check out his website https://www.naimalowe.net/ and Instagram @trial_and_error_dot_art Follow us on Instagram @artists.talk.movies

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