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Drag Queen Coleslaw’s Corner Is Back at Boston’s Museum Of Science
Boston drag queen Coleslaw Corner is Back. However, you will not find her at Club Cafe or any other of the city’s gay bars. She’s returning to her home from home: Boston’s Museum of Science Her performance is part of the Museum’s of SubSpace programming, an initiative marketed “for adults looking for something different”…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden @BFI London Film Fest reviews “A Room Of My Own” that makes a case for how sad moments define people
A Room of My Own (Directed by Ioseb ‘Soso’ Bliadze), set in Tbilisi, Georgia, during the pandemic asks one central question; do circumstances turn you into a mess, or does being a mess create your circumstances? It then artfully avoids coming down on one side or the other. Tina (Taki Mumladze, also the co-writer…
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This Arab is Queer : a must read anthology by Elias Jahshan
Elias Jahshan, an Australian journalist of Palestinian and Lebanese descent living in London, asked 18 writers who were born or raised in the Arab region or who are from the diaspora to ruminate on this intersection of their identity. The result is a new anthology This Arab is Queer, that has just been…
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews UÝRA – THE RISING FOREST a trans-indigenous artist travels through the Amazon forest
The documentary tells a story about humans and plants in a singular context. The opening sequence is one of a devastating rainforest region that shortly afterward looks like an abstraction. The Mother of the Forest and Emerson Pontes / Uýra Sodoma lead us through a fascinating narrative on nature and culture and how…
