queer cinema
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Read More: “I made my mourning productive, collective, and interactive …” on Visual AIDS“How can we understand this moment of ‘AIDS Crisis Revisitation’, exemplified by the success of films like United in Anger and How to Survive a Plague. Video artist, activist, and…
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Read More: Two Conferences: One Students’/Women’s Media PowerHome after back-to-back events where I wore one hat that just might be construed as two (an interesting slip [of the tongue] or tip [of the hat] that helps point…
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Read More: Still Around: HIV@30/ACTUP@25/NQC@20So many anniversaries, and so much fascination with the 90s! Looks like Watermelon Woman (Dunye, 1995) is going to be part of the posse of re-views too (slated for Framline…
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Read More: Hunger/StudAttended a midnight premier of Hunger Games. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri6wRz_NjiA&w=560&h=315] Granted, not my usual fare. Because I live it, I don’t usually “study” teen culture (save for my Fred work.) I…
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Read More: Swoon at 20I had the pleasure of attending the first in a series of screenings at the UCLA film archive that will be revisiting the original films of “the new queer cinema”…
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Read More: I’m (Just Not) Political: PariahTo begin, I think Pariah is terrific. Dee Rees is a very talented writer and director whose grasp of her craft is exceptional for a young artist. She has made…
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Read More: HIV/AIDS ConcordiaI’m in Montreal, getting ready to give a talk “Remembering AIDS Online: Networking, Viruses, Virality, and Arteries” as part of Concordia University’s eighteen year old, multi-disciplinary, year-long undergraduate course and…
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Read More: It’s a Mystery to Me: les clesThe third day of my show PerpiTube: Repurposing Social Media Spaces brought this remarkable and unexpected video by Shu Lea Cheang. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk7TOUiQ7-Q&w=425&h=349] Unexpected in two senses. First, I had…
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Read More: Form is Feeling: Remembering AIDSIn the past few days, I’ve seen two powerful film screenings featuring works that historicize AIDS in the 1980s: We Were Here (“the first documentary to take a deep and…
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Read More: The Putative Black Lesbian Speaks
As it is wont to do, the blogisphere will tackle, pin-down, chew-up, devour, and spit out the story of the phony “lesbian blogger Amina” and her pseudo-lesbian editor, “Paula Brooks.”…