Tag: genderqueer
Sam Smith and KIm Petras : Unholy Alliance
Confession time of sorts. The Queerguru Team does not always agree on everything that makes it to our pages. But we seem to be unanimous about the genderqueer Brit singer Sam Smith. We just don’t like them. Yes we know they are highly successful winning four Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, three Billboard Music Awards, and an American Music…
John Jarboe, ‘Rose : You Are Who You Eat:’ Makes Cannibalism Palatable
Rose: You Are Who You Eat ☆☆☆☆☆ GUGGENHEIM. NY This brilliant energetic 75-minute nonstop performance often hilarious, thought-provoking, moving, with just enough audience perception has you wanting to see it again and again. John Jarboe’s story comes full circle on stage as she erotically tastefully strips down to her Calvin’s and I’m not…
Being Thunder : the story of an indigenous Two Spirit Teen
French filmmaker Stéphanie Lamorré’s heart-touching documentary on teenage Sherenté Mishitashin is another very welcome contribution to the burgeoning dialogue about the transgender community. Sherenté is a gender-queer Two-Sprit teenager and a member of the Narragansett Tribal Nation in Rhode Island and this is their story. Lamorré’s very discreet camera captures a very determined and…
Mykki Blanco goes Out Of This World
This new documentary from I-D follows the journey American rapper and activist Mykki Blanco takes to explore queer culture in Johannesburg. Blanco, who has used different pronouns throughout her career, is fearless and funny as she seeks to breakdown barriers and share all her new experiences with such infectious energy and vitality. “I was…
FTWTF : Female To What The Fuck
This second documentary from Austrian filmmakers Katharina Lampert and Cordula Thym with its most prefect title, tells the story of several people who fit somewhere along the genderqueer spectrum, but most of them are still undecided exactly where they want to be right now on this sliding scale. All of them were born as women but have chosen to…
