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Muslim Drag Queens 2015
I heard about this film after hearing Asifia Lahore speak on the podcast Tikka Talk about being a trans Muslim; this film documents Asifia when she was living as a gay drag queen going by the name Asif. I think this would have worked better as a series with each episode focusing on a queen - Asif, Ibrahim, and Imran - as due to the short running time many elements are only touched upon. I was particularly interested in one…
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One Deadly Weekend in America 2017
Interesting and sad stories. Wish this had been more political rather than "some police good! Some police bad! Some guns good! Some guns bad!"
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NightGowns 2020
Justice for Miss Malice! Just kidding (but seriously why does every other cast member get their own episode except her?). I love being queer and can only aspire to live as openly and comfortably as the NightGowns folks.
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Ida 2013
Ida hit me just as hard the second time, if not even more given the information I already knew about the characters. This time round I found myself thinking more about the periphery characters - the barman, Wanda’s lovers, the waitress, the bandmembers. We know from the main characters that life is complicated. Wanda lost her entire family in the Holocaust - then took part in Stalinist show trials that put people to their deaths. Feliks killed the Lebensteins -…
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