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Dirty Looks: On Location - Misadventures in Black Dyke Dating in the 90's
Monday, July 6th, 7:30pm
Dirty Looks: On Location
(A Month of Queer Interventions in NYC Spaces, July 1st-31st)
Misadventures in Black Dyke Dating in the 90's
Curated by Vivian Crockett
Co-presented with Queer/Art/Film
Greetings From Africa
Cheryl Dunye, 1994, 10 min
Frankie and Jocie
Jocelyn Taylor, 1994, 20 min
I Never Danced the Way Girls Were Supposed To
Dawn Suggs, 1992, 7 min
Spin Cycle
Aarin Burch, 1991, 5 min
What Is A Line?
Shari Frilot, 1994, 10 min
A showcase of films from the 1990s by black queer women filmmakers, exploring the trials and traumas of navigating dating and love at the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. The films intermix humor, fiction, experimental visual tactics, and candid dialogue to examine relationships with family, community, romantic partners, and self.
Along with its well-documented history of mixed cultural spaces during the Harlem Renaissance and beyond, where people of diverse racial, gender and sexual identities interacted, Harlem has remained a crucial site of Black cultural production, community building, and resistance since the early twentieth century. Maysles Cinema, the only independent cinema north of Lincoln Center, is committed to creating a democratic space that provides educational outreach to the local community as well as pay-what-you-can screenings. Maysles is located near the former site of Wellworth's, a down-low lesbian bar in the 1950s-60s it was a straight bar in the front and lesbian bar in the back (as documented by lesbian scholar Bonnie Zimmerman). In the midst of racial exclusion, alienation, and racist experiences in predominantly white lesbian and mixed spaces, places like Wellworth's provided rare access to public sociality for Black lesbians.
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LocationMaysles Cinema (View)
343 Lenox Ave.
New York City, NY 10027
United States
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