Ris Fatah
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews BEYOND THE AGGRESSIVES : 25 YEARS LATER revisiting aspirations of a group of six fabulous aggressives, masculine presenting/identifying queer people of colour
Conversations around gender and sexual identities are hot topics these days. In the heat of the moment, however, it’s useful to look back at how such conversations were framed in previous eras, and how our thoughts have evolved over time. Daniel Peddle’s ground-breaking 2005 documentary, The Aggressives, documented the beliefs, lives, and aspirations…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews OUR SON the story of surviving a queer divorce
Divorce rates for gay marriages are about the same as straight marriages, running at about 2% a year. Lesbian divorce rates are, however, approximately twice as high as those for gay male marriages. This may reflect the fact that most divorce is initiated by women. So, if you’re a gay male couple getting…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah ⚝⚝⚝⚝⚝ review of DREAMING AND DROWNING an award-winning queer coming of age play
Dreaming and Drowning ⚝⚝⚝⚝⚝ Bush Theatre, London Dreaming and Drowning is a brilliant new, award-winning, queer coming-of-age play by Kwame Owusu, currently on at London’s innovative Bush Theatre. The cosy theatre, which recently celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, specializes in the development of new plays and playwrights, and this play is one of its…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE a beautiful, very detailed, documentary about the trail-blazing sex educator
Despite giving the world TV gems featuring powerful women such as Charlie’s Angels, Wonder Woman, and The Bionic Woman, the reality of women’s lives and human rights in 1970s America was very different. The National Organisation of Women (NOW), founded in 1966, had led the way in the development of women’s rights, but…
