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Femme2006: Conversations and Explorations presents two exciting and groundbreaking film screenings and a panel discussion.
Co-Presenters
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project
Frameline/SF International LGBT Film Festival
Strap-ons and Straps Off: Femme Identity and Liberation
Sunday, August 13th
1:30-3:00pm
International Room
Free for Conference Registrants
$5.00 - $15.00 sliding scale for Non-Registrants
A decade of films deliver new femme worlds, from the streets and sheets of Black Britain, to the elite white towers of colleges and universities, to the streets and frontseats of Fruitvale in Oakland. In this film program, bad-ass femmes, marimachas, B.D. women, womanists, lesbian feminists, and academic queer theorists take over the screen to imagine and re-invent femme identities.
FtF: Female to Femme gathers feminist queer theorists, punk rock icons, outspoken writers and femme divas to discuss femme politics and gender identity. Past Present Future: (In)Formation Sequence vamps through gritty urban streets, as femmes, dykes, faggots, jotas, and queers arm themselves with humor, fabulous headgear, and bitching self-defense manuevers. ¿Tienes Hambre? dishes up juicy tacos, a juicier butch and the juiciest femme in Oakland in this homage to the working-class realities of marimachas and jotas. As it beguiles us with glimpses of red lingerie, Cherries In The Snow: An ode to Joan Nestle celebrates femme history and a femme historian. B.D. Women smoothly struts from the sultry jazz clubs of 1920's Harlem to the very real homes and lives of Black British lesbians to gaze honestly at racial and sexual identity.
FtF: Female to Femme
by Elizabeth Stark and Kami Chisolm (2006 USA 52 min)
Past Present Future: (In) formation sequence
by Jessica Lawless (2004 USA 5 min)
¿Tienes Hambre?
by Margo Mercedes Rivera-Weiss (2004 USA 7 min)
Cherries in the Snow: An ode to Joan Nestle
by Melissa Levin (2002 CANADA 5 min)
B.D. Women
by Inge Blackman (1994 U.K. 20 min)
Special Panel:
Femininities, Feminism, and Femmes
Sunday, August 13th
3:00-4:00 pm
In this panel discussion, we expand the political dialogue that Strap-ons and Straps Off! films initiate, and invite our community into an open conversation that explores the promises and limitations of a femme politic.
How do we change the lens through which femininity and femme have traditionally been idealized? How do we visualize our bodies, desires and cultures? What communities do we imagine as our own? How does femme identity intersect with our other identities? How do we harness this power for political effect? Please join us in this community conversation, with femmes and our allies, as we get to the heart of these questions and our desires.
Moderators: Darshan Elena Campos, Kebo Drew
Panelists: Tina D'Elia, Cindy Emch, Shawna Virago
Femmes In Space: Revolutionary Loves
Sunday, August 13th
7:15-9:15pm
International Room
Free for Conference Registrants
$5.00 - $15.00 sliding scale for Non-Registrants
From bartenders to rodeo queens, this program of short films revels in the glorious diversity of femininity as femmes master their looks, politics, and identities. These films remind us that revolutions are born out of love for ourselves, our lovers, and our communities.
Circuit boards, long neck beers, and barbells tease our tongues with femininity's sweet afterkick in Feminine Sense . Four loving video letters to Ms. Parton charm us with a piece of femme heaven and a femme icon in Letters to Dolly . A personal musing, Texture of Honesty luxuriates in the natural state of sassy and proud Black hair. Dragon Desire sparkles with a kaleidescopic exploration of desire and femme vulnerability that is slick and splendid. A hungry latin@ butch gets a tasty side dish next to the taco truck in ¿Tienes Hambre? A ballsy femme gang ignites the revolution on rollerskates in Quality Bad Funds The Revolution . In Serve Thy Master , the Virgin Mary shows us that there is no shame nor sin in sex as a femme takes the reins to her own liberation.
Feminine Sense
by Crystal Weston (2006 USA 9 min)
Letters to Dolly
by Haley Ausserer (2004 USA 21 min)
The Texture of Honesty
by Sandy Falby (2001 USA 7 min)
Dragon Desire
by Madeleine Lim (2004 USA 2 min)
¿Tienes Hambre?
by Margo Mercedes Rivera-Weiss (2004 USA 7 min)
Quality Bad Funds The Revolution
by Rebeka Rodriguez (2006 USA 10 min)
Serve Thy Master
by Trina Espinoza (2005 USA 12 min)
A Q&A with the filmmakers will follow this screening. All works except Letters to Dolly were created through QWOCMAP, which promotes the visibility of queer women of color through the creation and exhibition of films & videos that reflect our life stories and the vital social justice issues that concern our communities.
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