Criminal Queers
trailer, 6 minutes
(with Eric Stanley)
2010, 70 minutes, Color (DV)
Criminal Queers visualizes a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex and toward a world without walls. Remembering that prison breaks are both a theoretical and material practice of freedom, this film imagines what spaces might be opened up if crowbars, wigs, and metal files become tools for transformation. Follow Yoshi, Joy, Susan and Lucy as they fiercely read everything from the Human Rights Campaign and hate crimes legislation to the non-profitization of social movements. Criminal Queers grows our collective liberation by working to abolish the multiple ways our hearts, genders, and desires are confined.
Screenings
* University of Milawaukee, October 2009 Milwaukee, WI
* Concordia, November 2009 - Montréal, Canada
* University of Ottawa, November 2009 - Ottawa, Canada
* University of Maryland- College Park, April 2010 College Park, MD
* University of Washington- Seattle, May 2010 Seattle, WA
* UC Santa Barbara, May 2010 Santa Barbara, CA
* Palais de Tokyo, June 2010 Paris, France
* University of California Santa Cruz, February 2011 Santa Cruz, CA
* Northwestern University, March 2011 Evanston, IL
* University of Pennsylvania, March 2011 Philadelphia, PA
* Wesleyan University, April 2011 Middletown, CT