Casa Nem is an occupied house where LGBT people, mainly sex working trans women of colour, can stay and live together. Indianara is the founder. The film is full of shots of the girls hanging out at Casa Nem or Indianara’s place: in a pool, dancing tits out, getting ready or whatever. It’s so rare to see trans women lounging around together and having fun on screen.
It was here that I discovered Sofia Coppola, here that I learned of the Lisbon sisters and their tragic fates, here that I felt the first stirs of recognition. Five young girls, entombed in suburbia, with no way out.
My friend warned me when she got me the book. I kept it on a table for two weeks before I picked it up. Five days so that if it had traces of Covid on it, it would die. Nine days to gather the courage. The book she was talking about is Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House.
By Irenosen Okojie You can watch A Place of Rage for $9.99/£8.00 (50% off) via Vimeo on Demand here; thanks to the …
By Grace Barber-Plentie. Illustration by Javie Huxley. The Between Us We Have Everything We Need short film programme was available …
By Cathy Brennan The Lighthouse is available to rent from Vimeo on Demand via Fixafilm until Thursday 6th August, as …
I love Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman for enacting how hard it can be to sift through history to find those trailblazers who actually left little trace behind them. And also, how history doesn’t always reward us with heroism.
A small gesture to re-inscribe women into film history, as Christine Gledhill and Julia Knight point out, changes not just women’s film history but all film history.
By Grace Barber-Plentie. What Sweet Sugar Rage does so successfully is to show resistance as well as solidarity through art and problem-solving. The women in this film provide community – they listen to each others problems, but more than that, they offer viable solutions.
By Andrea Luka Zimmerman Daisies is available to stream via Second Run’s new Vimeo on Demand service, £4.99 for one …
By Lizzie Borden and Jessie Rovinelli SO PRETTY is being released on June 12 by Sentient.Art.Film in the US. International …
By Hyun Jin Cho Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals is available …
By Clara Bradbury-Rance Clara’s book Lesbian Cinema After Queer Theory is forthcoming in paperback from Edinburgh University Press. Netflix is available …
I have been thankful, during social isolation, for the generosity of the many media artists, especially women of colour, who have shared their work on the Internet. Among them is Rea Tajiri, whose classic, half-hour experimental documentary video, History and Memory, has long been hard to see outside of art spaces and classrooms.
WHERE I GROW OLD also acts as a love letter to the city where Rocha was born and co-created TEIA, a collective based in Belo Horizonte. It showcases a city which is rarely documented on screen
By Helen Charman Fetch the Bolt Cutters is available to stream on Spotify and can be pre-ordered on CD and double …
By Sarah Crewe Every Bad is available to stream on Spotify or the band’s YouTube channel, download or purchase (CD/LP) from Bandcamp, …
I am trying to not force myself to keep up with reading, listening or watching anything and I feel that as a result I have found so many things that have brought me joy. Here are a few of them
By Ania Ostrowska The Daughters of Fire (Las Hijas del Fuego) is streaming on MUBI until 22 April 2020. You …
By Jenny Clarke I am currently living an unintentionally minimalist life in Edinburgh; I moved myself and some essentials up …
By Sarah Wood I heard the news that my friend Clare had died in China. She’s the first person I …
By Selina Robertson Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn (Virago, 2013) is out now in paperback. Marine Girls’ albums Beach …
We’re watching TRIGONOMETRY on BBC iPlayer, directed by and starring two Femmes favourites: Athina Rachel Tsangari and Ariane Labed, back a decade after Attenberg with a new tale of loving & vulnerable bodies dancing dorkily.
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