For anyone even moderately aware of the transphobia at large within both political and medical institutions, this should not prove surprising. The credits to Kokomo City a film I reviewed favorably in August acknowledge the untimely death of Black trans sex worker Koko Da Doll, a central figure in the film who was shot down by a teenager in Atlanta.
My own home state of Missouri is the latest to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors. But what if depictions of the trans experience were not fundamentally defined by struggle and were instead liberatory β even joyful? What if gender nonconformism were a source of both autonomous pleasure and resistance? These are but a few of the reasons why writer and philosopher Paul B. The film oscillates through time as each participant becomes a version of Orlando. We risk our lives every time.
In the final scene, all Orlandos gather in a wood-paneled courtroom as their genders are officially approved by an imagined French government; feminist writer Virginie Despentes plays the judge who stamps their IDs. As each actor rises to approach the stand β some short, some tall, some old, some young, some thin, some stout, representing multiple ethnicities β the rest of the room cheers.
However far off, a better future is not possible if we cannot first imagine it. Orlando: My Political Biography opens in theaters November Her second volume of poetry, Francofilaments, is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books Your email address will not be published. In quiet yet scrupulous detail, Designing Experience asks how the US National Park Service shapes the narratives it tells about this country and the lands it claims. The museum temporarily closed its doors after a group dropped banners depicting Palestinians grieving over the bodies of dead children.
The ArtYard exhibition explores plant respiration as a metaphor for life and vulnerability. On view through January 28 in Frenchtown, New Jersey. Paul B. Preciado The film oscillates through time as each participant becomes a version of Orlando. Still from Orlando: My Political Biography , dir. Leave a comment. Cancel reply Your email address will not be published.
