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Nước [Trailer]

Set in the California Drought, Nước (Water/Homeland) is an experimental narrative short film about a queer Vietnamese American teen who attempts to piece tog...

Súper excited to announce Nước's Fall screenings !! Please tell everyone? Thanks ( ᐛ )و

CHICAGO // SEPT. 24, 7:30pm Reeling Film Fest, "Totally Transfixed" program Chicago Filmmakers 5243 N Clark St, Chicago, Illinois

HONOLULU // OCT. 5, 2pm on tour with Queer Vietnamese Film Festival Engaging with Vietnam Conference University of Hawaii at Manoa Moore 258, Honolulu, Hawai'i

NORTH CAROLINA // OCT. 8, 2:30pm OUT at the Movies of Winston-Salem, proceeding "AKRON" University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) 1533 South Main St, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

NYC // OCT. 22, 6:45pm NewFest: The NYC LGBT Film Festival, "Grrls Shorts" program Cinépolis Chelsea (formerly Bow Tie) 260 West 23rd St, NYC, New York

NYC //OCT. 23, 4:30pm NewFest: The NYC LGBT Film Festival, "Grrls Shorts" program The Screening Room at The Center 208 West 13th St, NYC, New York

NYC // OCT 23, 7:30pm Screening + Performances by Queer & Trans Viet poets + Q&A Panel Asian American Writers' Workshop 110-112 W. 27th St, 6th Floor, NYC, New York

++++++++ More Screenings TBA: Los Angeles, CA San Francisco, CA San Diego, CA Vancouver, Canada

(۶ꈨຶꎁꈨຶ )۶ʸᵉᵃʰᵎ

[swagintherain]

Terence Crutcher Another one was killed today. Keith Lamont Scott. He was shot dead sitting in his car by a Charlotte Mecklenburg officer while reading a book. So many black lives have been killed, you’d think you were watching the end of a movie. This list is too long.

THIS is what really matters. THIS should go viral.

#BlackLivesMatter

[justt-livinn]

[mahakavi]

Lifestyle feminism ushered in the notion that there could be as many versions of feminism as there were women. Suddenly the politics was being slowly removed from feminism. And the assumption prevailed that no matter what a woman’s politics, be she conservative or liberal, she too could fit feminism into her existing lifestyle. Obviously this way of thinking has made feminism more acceptable because its underlying assumption is that women can be feminists without fundamentally challenging and changing themselves or the culture.

bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody (via thegeekyblonde)

[plannedparenthood]

Does Planned Parenthood offer Hormone Replacement Therapy for transgender people?

Someone asked us: 

Can Planned Parenthood provide hormones to transgender people? And if so, what are the costs?

Why yes, yes we do. There are an increasing number of Planned Parenthood health centers that offer hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for trans clients. (Cost will vary depending on your insurance and Planned Parenthood health center policies.) Currently, the Planned Parenthood health centers that offer hormone treatment for trans folks are: 

California:

Fresno

Mountain View

Sacramento

Santa Cruz

Walnut Creek

Colorado:

Denver

Maine:

Biddeford

Portland

Sanford

Topsham

Montana:

Billings

Great Falls

Helena

New Hampshire:

Derry

Keene

Manchester

West Lebanon

New York:

Ithaca

North Carolina:

Asheville

Chapel Hill

Raleigh

Vermont:

Barre

Bennington

Burlington

Hyde Park

Middlebury

St. Albans 

Washington

Bellingham 

- Calvin and Maureen at QueerTips

[4lung]

IMPORTANT NOTE: OBTAINING HRT THROUGH PLANNED PARENTHOOD DOES NOT REQUIRE ANY SORT OF PSYCH DIAGNOSIS OR SEEING A SEPERATE ENDOCRINOLOGIST. IF YOU LIVE IN THESE PLACES AND WANT HRT, PLEASE SAVE YOURSELF A FEW THOUSAND DOLLARS

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[claudia-kishi]

@ConstanceWu Things I’m doing behind the lens: Meeting every AznAm writer I can, writing 2 features, developing a series about the Chinese Exclusion Act. And yes, I am currently putting a high priority on fostering AznAmer WOMEN writer/director/creators & LGBTQ AznAmer voices. #behindthelens

[smellydurianface]

Bay Area & Orange County, come thru!

Sacramento San Jose Brea (Orange County)

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[yellowxperil-deactivated2026012]

uuuuuuuummm????!???!!?

[smellydurianface]

late reblog but I’m still lowkey freaking out about this

[smellydurianface]

sharing poster #2 for the world premiere screening of Nước (short film) in Los Angeles!

Set in the California Drought, Nước (Water/Homeland) is an experimental narrative short film about a queer Vietnamese American teen (played by @yellowxperil, who is not a teen in real life, lol) who attempts to piece together and understand their mom’s experience as a Vietnam War refugee. The journey pulls us into a fantastical series of iconic historical photographs, ultimately highlighting the complexity of understanding another’s experiences completely and instead opening up possibilities for building relationships based on being presence and co-existence.

SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2016, 8:00 PM Aratani Theater, Japanese American Cultural & Community Center 244 South San Pedro St., Los Angeles, CA 90012

Our film will be screening with the works of super talented Asian American filmmakers: Sumiko Braun, Conrad Ikaika Lihilihi, Tulica Singh, Kayla Tong,Faroukh Virani, Stanley Wong, Kristy Ishii, Andy Ta, and Tony Zhang.

More details about the film. Get your tickets here.

SEE YOU THERE <3

[smellydurianface]

QUEER VIETNAMESENESS @ UC DAVIS Documentary Film Screening + Q&A w/ filmmaker

Tuesday, April 19 @ 6:30pm at UC DAVIS

FREE + OPEN TO THE PUBLIC QUEER VIETNAMESENESS is a documentary that follows the lives of three queer 2nd generation Vietnamese Americans navigating language, politics, and familial relationships. The lives of the three individuals featured in the film tell quintessential stories about the Vietnamese community in the U.S., challenging several dominant tropes in the mainstream Vietnamese refugee experience. DIRECTED BY: QUYÊN NGUYEN-LE FEATURING: NAT NEWTON, SHANNON MY LE, DEP TRAI (@yellowxperil)​ LOCATION: University of California, Davis Student Community Center (SCC), Room D California Ave, Davis, CA 95616

Facebook Event page:  https://www.facebook.com/events/1322164084466997/ 

More information about future screenings here!

[smellydurianface]

hi friends, excited to announce the world premiere screening of Nước (short film) in Los Angeles!

Set in the California Drought, Nước (Water/Homeland) is an experimental narrative short film about a queer Vietnamese American teen (played by @yellowxperil, who is not a teen in real life, lol) who attempts to piece together and understand their mom's experience as a Vietnam War refugee. The journey pulls us into a fantastical series of iconic historical photographs, ultimately highlighting the complexity of understanding another's experiences completely and instead opening up possibilities for building relationships based on being presence and co-existence.

SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2016, 8:00 PM Aratani Theater, Japanese American Cultural & Community Center 244 South San Pedro St., Los Angeles, CA 90012

Our film will be screening with the works of super talented Asian American filmmakers: Sumiko Braun, Conrad Ikaika Lihilihi, Tulica Singh, Kayla Tong, Faroukh Virani, and Stanley Wong, Kristy Ishii, Andy Ta, and Tony Zhang.

More details about the screening. Get your tickets here.

SEE YOU THERE <3

[smellydurianface]

motto of the day

[alplabetmafiahead]

“Mass tourism is hawking a superficial exoticism that ignores the true culture of destinations. Holiday centres offer a reconstructed ethnicity that satisfies a thirst for new thrills. Tourism has generated a form of sub culture that humiliates both tourists and the host community.” Pope Francis (at San Pedro De Alausi, Ecuador)

[yellowxperil-deactivated2026012]

honestly, i very well might be concluding the same thing if i wasn’t involved, but i’m in a very difficult situation right now. her family and hana herself have asked me to delete all posts since she was reached. so, since i’m getting almost exclusively anon messages about this, i am forced to encourage public conversation about something her family has asked me to put a lid on. i just spent 24 hours working on looking for a friend i thought was in danger and doing everything her family and partner asked, celebrated with them afterwards only to come back to this.

can ANYBODY who was part of the facebook group conversation with hana’s partner please confirm or deny that info we released (yes “we”, i authored the information first out of 3 volunteers to expedite the process because as you can imagine, time efficiency was crucial) was legitimate and given to us by her partner and parents? and then that we were asked to delete those circulated psots after hana was reached? there are at least 5 of you on tumblr. 

and can anybody who actually used the links (that i provided since the very beginning) confirm that they saw hana’s father himself comment on my facebook post giving me more information about her car?

@noscrubs-nomasters @halafihi @lescreamingtrees

[yoce-la-negra]

Yo! We were in panic and we needed to find out friend and bring them back safely! How is this even in question right now?!

[noscrubs-nomasters]

Yeah we didn’t release any information without her family’s approval and were in constant communication about updates/what we could and could not post.

[smellydurianface]

Confirming that we asked for approval before releasing and circulating any information and were in communication re: any updates from her family via her partner. All the information in the post was given to us by them (which is how we knew her VIN), and the posts were deleted after she was found at their request for privacy

[redlighterfilms]

Revenge of the Flower Gang written and directed by Amanda Kang (TW: Sexual Assault) “Inspired by the style and sass of ‘60s girl-gang sexploitation films, “Revenge of the Flower Gang” is a campy, fun-filled short film following the exploits of a gang of lesbian femme fatales as they move to take down a predatory fraternity on Halloween night.”  Director’s Note: Revenge of the Flower Gang tackles issues of sexual violence on college campuses through the lens of 1960s grindhouse/sexploitation films. ALL key crew members have marginalized identities, adding to the diversity of the project both on-screen and off.