Spittin’ Change

I took the opportunity to screen the recently released documentary City of Borders at this year’s Los Angeles film Festival. Korean-American filmmaker Yun Suh delivers a compelling and provocative film.  Though at times it privileges a narrative about queer people that presents lgbt people as somehow more capable of overcoming hatred and inequality, a stance that reifies a particular version of queer identity and thereby obscures the ways that queer people participate in oppressive and exploitative ideologies and situations, the documentary offers welcome insights into the complexity of the current socio- political situation in Jerusalem.

Here is a link to the statement QEJ released about the recently announced “Rainbow Pilgrimage” tourist initiative in NYC.

Stonewall 40th and Pride Unveil NYC’s Shameful Priorities

1. Kodwo Eshun, More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction
2. David Couzens Hoy, The Time of Our Lives: A Critical History of Temporality
3. John Tagg, The Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning

   An unconventional summer reading list, to be sure.  But I can’t wait to get to them.  I expect that I will be adding more.