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From Pandemic to Prairie
Maybe it is because of COVID 19 Lockdown Madness but Buzz Feed reports of a new very worrying trend. We hesitate it call it ‘fashion’ even though it as all about some of Target’s ‘finest’ dresses. The folks at Target have decided if we’re gonna suffer a pandemic, we might as well look like…
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Naked and Invisible
How do you get naked in public without being arrested? Double world body painting champion Carolyn Roper camouflages people to disappear in public places. Then they pounce! In a series for UK’s Channel 4 Roper shows how her provocative art attracts the attention of surprised and delighted passersby. None more so than when her…
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The World To Come : (may be as bleak as this one)
Set in 1856 this slow-burning drama is mostly as bleak as the wild Frontier it is set in. It opens with a throughly depressed Abigail (Katherine Waterson) reading aloud in voiceover . “This morning, ice in our bedroom for the first time all winter,” and you really feel the cold as she speaks. She…
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24 year old Dolly shares her very real heartbreaking story of surviving as a lesbian in Egypt
When Dutch Jewish filmmaker Evelyn Markus introduced Queerguru (via Email) to Dolly a young woman in Egypt, who lives in a severely oppressive society as a lesbian and atheist, we immediately knew we wanted to share her story. Her heartbreaking tale of trying simply to exist and being true to her self is incredibly…
