I’m posting this for anyone who believes that we’re past the decades-old stereotypes of lesbians as ugly man-hating brutes that roam the streets just waiting to cut off male genitalia at every opportunity. EXHIBIT A Andrew Sullivan re-blogged a couple of quotes from June Thomas’ interview with me about the project for Slate. Shortly after posting the …
We’re very excited that the Hatchfund crowdfunding campaign was a success and want to thank everyone who offered support during the process, financial and otherwise! Because it was successful, Hatchfund is going to keep the campaign open for an additional 30 days for other donors to join in. So you can still give—every dollar will go towards …
The information below represents the highlights from our trip, not every single stop. For those interested in having us visit and document their town and/or space, this was the first trip on our journey. Once we get more work done on the film, we’ll be headed back out to visit more communities and to share the …
Read more “Road Trip – Some of the Stops and Events Along the Way”
Earlier today Curve Magazine posted the online version of my article talking about the disappearance of lesbian spaces and it has gotten a pretty strong response—lots of likes and lots of comments. I’m embedding the post and the accompanying comments here so that you can have a look at them as well, many include people’s memories …
One of the first people I spoke to upon starting the documentary was Alexis Danzig. After mentioning the project to a researcher working at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, I learned that in 1996 Danzig had taken a solo motorcycle journey across thousands of miles of the US. Along the way she made 28 stops (give …
Read more “Queer Pilgrimages: Road Trips Past & Present [UPDATED]”
We’re very excited to announce that The Unknown Play Project is featured in the June 2014 issue of Curve magazine. Director Alexis Clements wrote a piece for the issue focused on the question of why lesbian spaces, from bars to bookstores to community spaces created in 1970s, are disappearing and what the implications of that change …
Please join us for an informal reading of Alexis Clements’ play Unknown at the WOW Cafe Theater on Friday, May 30, 2014. Members of the WOW community and some of those who show up for the reading, will read the play aloud. Time/Date Friday, May 30, 2014 Reception at 6.30pm, Reading at 7.00pm Location WOW Cafe …
We’ve joined Instagram so that people can follow us through the project. We’ll post images of research work we’re doing, places we’re visiting, photos from the road, and also from our shoots. See what we’re up to.
The conflict around the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival’s exclusion of trans* people has been ongoing since the 1991 Festival when Nancy Burkholder was expelled from the land and the event because she was transsexual. (Read Burkholder’s description of what transpired that night.) The following year, the producers published a statement in the program articulating that …
This video, produced early in the project, helps to give an introduction to some of the issues driving the project.