Ris Fatah
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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…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews RUNS IN THE FAMILY a queer comedy from South Africa by Ian Gabriel and his trans son Gabe
Thanks to Nelson Mandela, South Africa has one of the best constitutions and legal rights frameworks for queer people globally. A nation’s queer human rights usually affects the tone of the film-making in that country. For example, queer film-making out of Muslim countries often contains far more angst-ridden themes than films from more…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah previews Martin O’Brien’s ‘Fading Out of Dead Air (Transmissions for the Necropolis)’ at the Whitechapel Gallery
Artist and zombie Martin O’Brien is back! On Thursday 14th December, Fading Out of Dead Air (Transmissions for the Necropolis) will be performed, the third and final part of the queer writer and performance artist’s trilogy as Writer in Residence at London’s esteemed Whitechapel Gallery. The work will take the form of a…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews THE PERSIAN VERSION : a heartfelt dive into Iranian-American family life
The Persian Version takes a heartfelt dive into Iranian-American family life. Part comedy, part history lesson, part drama, part musical, writer/director Maryam Keshavarz’s award-winning tale, loosely based on a true story, details the lives of the New York-based Jamshidpour family from the women’s perspective. Leila (Layla Mohammadi) is the only daughter amongst the eight…
