Ris Fatah
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews My Boyfriend (El Fascista.) how politics can ruin your love life
Politics is increasingly polarised these days. Extremist news media, websites, and online social-media and other algorithms feed us what we want to consume – all with the aim of keeping us fearfully engaged for longer and longer, thereby satisfying advertising clients. This has led to an explosion in radical politics, in particular the rise of…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah previews Goner, a sensual, suspenseful choreographic journey delving into the depths of psychological horror
This 6-10th May, London’s innovative Battersea Arts Centre presents Goner, new work by hunky queer performance artist Marikiscrycrycry. Goner is a sensual, suspenseful choreographic journey delving into the depths of psychological horror. The Goner is someone who is doomed with no chance of survival—bound to death, a lost and hopeless case. Marikiscrycrycry takes the hard-hitting,…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews LAVENDER MEN : a drama that honours the legendary rumour that Abraham Lincoln had a gay affair
The plus-size, fem-presenting, non-binary Taffeta (Roger Q Mason) is working as a stage manager on a lacklustre play about ex-US President Abraham Lincoln, showing to half-empty houses at a small American theatre. They have a huge unrequited crush on the play’s director (Philippe Bowgen), which makes them work super-hard and quietly absorb negative energy from…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews MY FATHER’S DAUGHTER the feature film debut of Norwegian filmmaker Egil Pedersen.
Being fourteen or fifteen years old is never easy, and feisty indigenous Norwegian Sami teen Elvira (Sarah Olaussen Eira) is no exception. Bored in her small village, Unjarga in the far north of Norway, she fantasises that the father she has never known is Game of Thrones film star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. The Danish heartthrob (he…
