socialization, entertainment, education, and activism, SQIFF recalls the grassroots origins of queer film festivals that were first established in the late 1970s and 1980s as oppositional “safe havens” where queer communities could be formed and where queer
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Allison Macleod
Sol Neely
attending such abjection. Next, I consider the film in light of what has come to be called “abject criticism” ( Tyler 2009 ), which emerged in the 1980s, stirred by Julia Kristeva’s ubiquitous Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1982) and Barbara
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Visibility and Screen Politics after the Transgender Tipping Point
Wibke Straube
City's Latinx and African-American LGBTIQ 1980s ballroom scene, coproduced by, among others, Janet Mock and Our Lady J, consists of a cast of mainly trans and non-binary actors, including MJ Rodriguez, Indya Moore, Dominique Jackson, and Angelica Ross
Brian Bergen-Aurand
perfection of its own . Perhaps such a more complex “cognition of the senses” with regard to the study of screen bodies begins to arise from the evolution of feminist, LGBT, and queer theory in the 1980s. Perhaps, we can trace the percolation of those
Transitions Within Queer North African Cinema
Nouri Bouzid, Abdellah Taïa, and the Transnational Tourist
Walter S. Temple
paramount importance. In this vein, audiences familiar with queer Western film will likely recall that during the 1980s, and arguably well into the 1990s, on-screen representations of homosexuality and same-sex relations were too often linked to
Falling Apart Together
On Viewing Ali Atassi’s Our Terrible Country from Beirut
Ira Allen
terrible country, indeed. “Our terrible country” is Syria, of course, but it could as well be Lebanon in the 1980s, or Yemen or Ukraine today, or any other land riven by revolution cum civil war cum proxy war. 3 Indeed, Atassi’s Syria is a terrible
Redefining Representation
Black Trans and Queer Women’s Digital Media Production
Moya Bailey
on queer of color media production and artistic movements from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, younger voices are creating innovative web series, visibility projects, and funding initiatives that reimagine mainstream narratives about their identities