Celebrating Women’s History Month
Across three continents, this month’s International Women’s Day titles (Deepa Dhanraj’s INVOKING JUSTICE, Tamara Dawit’s FINDING SALLY, and Sylvia Hamilton’s CARRIE M. BEST: CHAMPION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS) illuminate three distinct struggles for women’s autonomy against white supremacist, misogynist, and authoritarian structures.
Call me Kuchu
In an unmarked office at the end of a dirt track, veteran activist David Kato labors to repeal Uganda’s homophobic laws and liberate his fellow lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender men and women, or “kuchus.” But David’s formidable task just became much more difficult. A new “Anti-Homosexuality Bill” proposes death for HIV-positive gay men, and […]
THE ARCHIVETTES
The Ride Ahead
Inside Lara Roxx
In the spring of 2004, 21-year old Lara Roxx left her hometown of Montreal and headed to L.A to try to make tons of cash in the adult entertainment industry. Within two months of working in this industry she contracted the most virulent form of HIV while performing sex in front of the camera. Inside […]
Radical Reels Presents: Someone Lives Here
Everything’s Cool
Real-life disaster movie EVERYTHING’S COOL is a film about America finally “getting” global warming in the wake of the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action. While industry funded nay-sayers sing what just might be their swan song of pseudo- scientific deception, a group of global warming messengers are on […]
