#21:
Chris E. Vargas & Eric. A Stanley
Thursday 01 September 2022
Location: Mascara Bar
Programme:
Criminal Queers, Chris E. Vargas & Eric A. Stanley, 2015 (63 mins)
︎︎︎ Tickets: sliding scale: £3–£10
Mascara Film Club is pleased to present a screening of Criminal Queers (2015) by Chris E. Vargas & Eric A. Stanley.
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.