transfeminism

Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions

Posted November 1, 2016 · Add Comment

Editors: Sandeep Bakshi (University of Le Havre), Suhraiya Jivraj (University of Kent) and
Silvia Posocco (Birkbeck, University of London)
Counterpress, Oxford, 2016

Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions contributes to the critical field of queer decolonial studies by demonstrating how sexuality, race, gender and religion intersect transnationally. The volume maps some of the specifically local issues as well as the common ones affecting queer/trans people of colour (qtpoc). The contributions are not delimited by traditional academic style but rather draw on creative inspiration to produce knowledge and insight through various styles and formats, including poetry, essays, statements, manifestos, as well as academic mash-ups. Queering coloniality and the epistemic categories that classify people means to disobey and delink from the coloniality of knowledge and of being. At this intersection, decolonial queerness is necessary not only to resist coloniality but, above all, to re-exist and re-emerge decolonially.

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Isaac Julien: The Attendant (1993)

Posted July 24, 2015 · Add Comment

The plot revolves around sexual fantasies aroused in a middle-aged black male museum guard — or attendant — by a young white male visitor. Much of the action takes place after closing time. As the guard paces the galleries, a huge 19th-century painting titled “Slaves on the West Coast of Africa”, by the French artist François-Auguste Biard, comes to life, its melodramatic scene of a white master bending over a dying black slave transformed into an up-to-date, leather clad sadomasochistic grouping.

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TROPICAL VIDEO ACTIVISM. Transformative Illegalities & Post-Porning Genders

Posted March 3, 2015 · Add Comment

Curated by Fernanda Nogueira

March 7, 2015, 4-9pm, VBKÖ, Vienna

This screening program stems from the urgencies of a collective body, a body formed by fragments, a mutant, which resists any classification, provocative, unsatisfied, which creates new ways of living by acting in the territory of transgression. Tropical Video Activism presents video productions – either registers of actions or more experimental poetics – as signs to make visible, read and spread social transformations, which are in furious excitement in the public sphere in many Southern geographies.

These processes are not happening just in a single territory. We can map the social effervescence, the networks arising and intensifying the emergence and encounter of new transborder communities capable of sharing activist tools and circulating critical information which in the past could only be found in independent, underground and thought marginal networks. Facing the urgency of action and its various potentialities in these different territories, the modern categories such as “originality” or “authenticity” are turned obsolete. In contrast, a broader notion of “network” is strengthen daily in the configuration of a collective battlefield […]

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Shu Lea Cheang: FLUIDØ (2017)

Posted March 3, 2015 · Add Comment

Following the acclaimed cyberpunk movie I.K.U., which premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and screened worldwide, Shu Lea Cheang is set to direct FLUIDØ in 2015 with Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion and Berlin-based crew and cast members.

Set in the post-AIDS future of 2060, where the Government is the first to declare the era AIDS FREE, mutated AIDS viruses give birth to ZERO GEN – humans that have genetically evolved in a very unique way. These gender fluid ZERO GENs are the bio-drug carriers whose white fluid is the hypernarcotic for the 21st century, taking over the markets of the 20th century white powder high. The ejaculate of these beings is intoxicating and the new form of sexual commodity in the future. The new drug, code named DELTA, diffuses through skin contact and creates an addictive high.

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Andrés Roccatagliata: Yo soy la Vero (2013)

Posted May 29, 2014 · Add Comment

¨Algún día, la sociedad permitirá; algún día la sociedad aceptará una ley en la cual la autodeterminación del propio ser sea fundamental. (…) Es importante para evolucionar, importante para vivir, importante para todo.¨ La Vero

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Alianzas tullido transfeministas a traves de la sexualidad y la postpornografía

Posted May 13, 2014 · Add Comment

Presentación y proyección de vídeo a cargo de Pornortopedia y postporno tullido Nexos. Con la participación de Post-Op, Lucrecia Masson y Patricia Carmona.

La idea es contribuir al imaginario pornografico con la visibilización de cuerpos que se salen de los parámetros de normalidad corporal (tullidos, marimachos, trans, gordxs…) y mostrar como deseables las prácticas a las que estas corporalidades invitan.

“No es lo que el postporno puede hacer por la personas con diversidad funcional, sino precisamente estos cuerpos que se mueven y sienten de una manera no mayoritaria lo que pueden hacer por la sexualidad colectiva, ampliando prácticas e imáginarios.”

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Shola Lynch: Free Angela and All Political Prisioners (2012)

Posted May 2, 2014 · Add Comment

Writer/director Shola Lynch follows up her 2004 documentary Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed with this film centered on the struggle of educator and activist Angela Davis, an outspoken UCLA professor whose affiliation with the Communist Party and the Black Panthers landed her on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list while challenging our perceptions of political […]

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Gabriel Baur: Venus Boyz (2002)

Posted December 1, 2013 · Add Comment

A legendary Drag King Night in New York is the point of departure for an odyssey to transgendered worlds, where women become men – some for a night, others for their whole lives. What motivates them. What changestake place? What do they dream of? The drag kings of New York meet in clubs and change lustfully into their male alter egos, parodying them and exploring male eroticism and power strategies. In London we see women experiment with hormones to become new men and “cyborgs”. Masculinity and transformation as performance, subversion or existential necessity. An intimate film about people who create intermediate sexual identities.

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Berwick Street Collective: Nightcleaners Part 1 (1975)

Posted November 23, 2013 · Add Comment

Nightcleaners Part 1 was a documentary made by members of the Berwick Street Collective (Marc Karlin, Mary Kelly, James Scott and Humphry Trevelyan), about the campaign to unionize the women who cleaned office blocks at night and who were being victimized and underpaid. Intending at the outset to make a campaign film, the Collective was […]

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Marina Gržinić/Aina Šmid:  Relations. 25 years of the lesbian group ŠKUC-LL, Ljubljana (2011)

Posted January 28, 2013 · Add Comment

Relations. 25 years of the lesbian group ŠKUC-LL, Ljubljana http://grzinic-smid.si/?p=276 (watch documentary) Authors: Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid, Zvonka T Simčič Length: 84 min 02 sec, 2012, color, sound Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian, with English subtitles Produced by Zavod CCC, Ljubljana. This documentary video film is about the 25 anniversary of the lesbian group ŠKUC-LL (1987-2012) and about the lesbian […]

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Campceptualismos del sur-Tropicamp, políticas performativas y subalternidad

Posted November 20, 2012 · Add Comment

Sergio Zevallos (Grupo Chaclacayo), with the collaboration of Frido Martin, from the series “Rosa Cordis”, 1986 19 nov. 2012 al 20 nov. 2012 Auditori MACBA Auditorio MACBA. Entrada gratuita. Aforo limitado. Con traducción simultanea. Proyección por video streaming del seminario Seminario PEI Abierto Dirigido por Beatriz Preciado con la participación de Aimar Arriola, Alex Brahim, […]

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Pratibha Parmar: A Place of Rage (1991)

Posted October 2, 2012 · Add Comment

Classic documentary about the role of black women in the American civil rights movement – with Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker. Pratibha Parmar has an impressive record when it comes to taking part in and documenting international black feminist movements. In addition to her work as a filmmaker, Parmar has published hugely influential […]