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Read the Story That Inspired Thin Skin—Screening Saturday at TBA:20
Ahamefule J. Oluo stars in Thin Skin, directed and co-written by Charles Mudede. Thin SkinBack in 2011, Seattle jazz musician and comedian Ahamefule J. Oluo wrote the following feature story for our sister publication The Stranger. Almost a decade later, some of what’s described in the article is now in a motion picture starring Ahamefule himself, and his sister Ijeoma Oluo. The film screens online on Saturday, September 12 at the Time-Based Art Festival at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Charles Mudede, a writer for The Stranger who also wrote Police Beat (screening here), directed and co-wrote the Oluo film, which is called Thin Skin.—eds
The men in my family love drugs. They love their meths and their cocaines (both cracked and uncracked), they love their pots and their heroins. They have deep and committed relationships with their drugs. I have always had a deep, committed, and loving relationship with my teeth, so I took a decidedly different route. My mother (never known for her eloquence) will call me and shout through the telephone: “Can you believe it!? Your cousin Kurt burgled again! Burgled!”
“Yes, Mother, I can, in fact, believe it.”