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hi and welcome to expression of the divine, an LGBT+ television and film blog. still under construction 🔨

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y’all radfems need to get the fuck out of my notes

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Wanuri Kahiu's Kenya-Set Lesbian Love Story Will Have Its World Premiere At Cannes

Making its world premiere screening in the Un Certain...

“Rafiki is a love story about two girls, Kena and Ziki, who live in a housing estate in Nairobi, Kenya. The girls are unlikely friends, and their fathers are rival politicians. When they fall in love and the community finds out, the girls are forced to choose between love and safety as two girls on different paths and the difficult decisions each must make about the life they lead and the ramifications of their choices.”

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“This award-winning portrait of lesbian life in the 1940s, 50s and 60s incorporates interviews, archival footage and a pulp novel dramatization to illustrate this incredible time. With humor and grace, ten charming and fascinating women discuss what it was like being lesbians at a very different time in history. Their candid and riveting stories bring to life what it was like coming out (or being closeted) and finding community amidst the homophobic backdrop of the era. Interwoven with this real-life history is the aching romantic, pulp-novel inspired tale of star-crossed lovers Mitch and Laura. The film also features an interview with the acclaimed 1950s lesbian pulp author Ann Bannon (Beebo Brinker, Odd Girl Out).”

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1992) Directed by Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman

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free to watch here 

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Gender Troubles: The Butches

Happy International Women's Day everyone. In honor of this Gender Troubles: The Butches is now online for FREE viewing with subtitles in six languages. Pass it on so butches everywhere - especially...

In honor of International Women’s Day, Gender Troubles: The Butches is now online for free viewing! If you haven’t had a chance to see this yet, please do!!

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‘The Exorcist’ Creator Reacts to Gay Kiss Backlash: ‘F*ck You…I’m Glad It Ruined the Show for You’

Jeremy Slater has a simple message for any fan of his show uncomfortable with a gay kiss.

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lipstick city (shea coulee, 2017)

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stop crying. open your hand.

lipstick city (shea couleé, 2017)

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10 wlwoc movies

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WE HAVE CURRENTLY RAISED 3,135$ OF OUR 12,500$ GOAL! 

Donate HERE!

Please donate just 1$! If we can 9000 reblogs, and everyone who reblogs or likes  donates just ONE DOLLAR, we can bring this camp to the children on Pine Ridge!

Outlast aims to increase minority representation in film and media by teaching minority students filmmaking skills so that they can tell their own stories. Outlast also aims to build relationships across minority communities, because together, we can “Outlast” anything.

This is our third year, and we are heading back to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation from July 3rd - July 12th. We’ll be holding a full short film production experience. The students will write, direct, film and edit a short film. We will then enter the film into festivals.

In addition, we are inviting speakers to Pine Ridge to hold performances, workshops and talks with the students. We are bringing in artist and filmmakers from a variety of multicultural and artistic backgrounds. So far, we have Native-American rapper Frank Waln, Native American poet Tanaya Winder, cinematographer Salvatore Totino and musicians Maimouna and Jabari Exum.

But we can’t do this without your help!

Please donate at

https://www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/outlast-film-camp-on-pine-ridge-indian-reservation–2

And visit

www.outlastfilmcamp.com for more information about who we are and what we do!

Bonus: Outlast is run entirely by women and people of color. We are African-American, Native-American, Filipino, Native-Hawaiian, and the list continues! We are minority youth coming together to empower minority youth!

Also, check us out, we were featured on Afropunk! 

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So I just completed a documentary title “Dancing in the Dark” which tells a story of the black and latino american gay experience and how it goes hand and hand with night culture and it would be super dope if you people were able to check out this film as it relate to current issues of today.

By @adomakoaman

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As I've gained some followers recently this is just a formal reminder that this blog is inclusive of trans women and anti-twerf.

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gender troubles: the butches (lisa plourde, 2017)

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Movies To Stream Right Now For Transgender Day Of Visibility

Boy Meets Girl (dir. Eric Shaeffer)

A sweet romantic comedy starring trans actress Michelle Hendley as a trans woman who finds love in a small town in Kentucky, USA. (Netflix)

Tangerine (dir. Sean Baker)

Two trans sex workers, played by trans actresses Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor, go on an adventure in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve to find the man who did one of them wrong. (Netflix)

Gun Hill Road (dir. Esai Morales)

Harmony Santana, who plays a young trans woman in the process of transitioning, was the first trans actress to be nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. (iTunes, Google Play)

Todo sobre mi madre/ All About My Mother (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)

This Spanish-language masterpiece by Pedro Almodóvar is the most-awarded movie featuring a trans actress: Antonia San Juan plays a trans woman named Agrado. (Amazon, iTunes, Hulu, Google Play)

Paris Is Burning (dir. Jennie Livingston)

The legendary documentary about the New York Ballroom scene showcases the brilliance of the many trans women of color who built a community there. (Netflix)

Kumu Hina (dir. Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson)

The story of Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, a Hawaiian teacher, activist, and māhū - an individual who embodies both male and female spirit. (Netflix)

Growing Up Coy (dir. Eric Juhola)

A documentary recently released by Netflix in 190 countries telling the story of Coy Mathis, a 6-year-old trans girl who was the focus of a landmark 2013 court ruling allowing her to use the girls’ bathroom at her school in Fountain, Colorado. (Netflix)

Pay It No Mind: The Life And Times Of Marsha P. Johnson (dir. Michael Kasino)

Marsha P. Johnson was a revolutionary trans activist, Stonewall instigator, Andy Warhol model, actress, and Saint. (YouTube)

Movies Directed By Trans People

The Matrix (dir. Lilly and Lana Wachowski)

Though directors Lilly and Lana Wachowski weren’t out at the time, their seminal film is fascinating to rewatch as a trans allegory. (Amazon, iTunes, Google Play)

Drunktowns’s Finest (dir. Sydney Freeland)

Directed by a Navajo trans woman and co-starring a Navajo trans woman, Drunktown’s Finest is about three young Native Americans who struggle with the hardships of life on a reservation. (iTunes, Google Play)

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The Watermelon Woman (1996) dir. Cheryl Dunye

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Black LGBT Films with Dark Skin Leads

Karmen Gei, dir. Joseph Gaï Ramaka (Senegal)

Young Soul Rebels, dir. Isaac Julien (UK)

Chocolate Babies, dir. Stephen Winter (USA)

Drool, dir. Nancy Kissam (USA)

Princesa, dir. Henrique Goldman (Italy)

The Watermelon Woman, dir. Cheryl Dunye (USA)

Noah’s Arc Jumping the Broom, dir. Patrik-Ian Polk (USA)

Brother to Brother, dir. Rodney Evans (USA)

Bessie, dir. Dee Rees (USA)

Tangerine, dir. Sean S. Baker (USA)

Pariah, dir. Dee Rees (USA)

Moonlight, dir. Barry Jenkins (USA)

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This whole list is brill… tangerine, Bessie, pariah watermelon woman are all fantastic essentials. Have high hopes for moonlight

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young soul rebels :-)

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SISTERHOOD is a new film chronicling the lives of San Franciso's transgender community | HUNGER TV

With the emergence of films like Tangerine, the success of actresses like Laverne Cox of Orange Is The New Black, Hari Nef's L'Oreal campaign and Caitlyn Jenner's Vanity Fair cover, the transgender community was befitted a moment of hyper-visibility over the last few years. The 'T' in LGBT was made bolder than ever.

CHECK OUT MINE/SISTERHOOD’S INTERVIEW WITH @hungertv ❤️ FEATURING A SIZZLE REEL AND SOME NEVER BEFORE SCENE SET PHOTOS 🎥✌🏻

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“I knew that I couldn’t lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn’t have felt her breath upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn’t have kissed her, without wanting to save her.”