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Criminal Queers
2015, 63 minutes
Keywords/theme
Media type
Country of origin

United States of America

Production company

https://criminalqueersfilm.net/

Technical specs

Colour

Languages

English/English

Content Warnings
prison
Images
Eight squares with one person in each square holding up a mugshot sign, except the person on the bottom right who is wearing a gold dress and posing with their long curly hair blowing in their face. The title "Criminal Queers" is written over these images in vibrant turquoise.
Description

Criminal Queers visualizes a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex and toward a world without walls. Remembering that prison breaks are both a theoretical and material practice of freedom, this film imagines what spaces might be opened up if crowbars, wigs, and metal files become tools for transformation. Follow Yoshi, Joy, Susan and Lucy as they fiercely read everything from the Human Rights Campaign and hate crimes legislation to the non-profitization of social movements. Criminal Queers grows our collective liberation by working to abolish the multiple ways our hearts, genders, and desires are confined.

Criminal Queers. “CRIMINAL QUEERS,” September 19, 2008. https://criminalqueersfilm.net/criminal-queers/.

Cast & Crew
Cast
Distribution
Copyright
Under Copyright (All Rights Reserved), 2016