Drag Video Activism!

Drag has always been a tool of resistance and visibility. As video technology became more available, drag artists started to document their interactions with the public to create social commentary, frivolity and political resistance. From Glenn Belverio’s 1990s Manhattan Cable series The Brenda and Glennda Show to Tiara Skye and Lushious Massacr’s social media, programmer Jaye Hudson explores how drag continues to make bold political statements.

Panellists

• Glenn Belverio, Queer video artist, creator of The Brenda and Glennda Show
• Mark Harriott, filmmaker and director of Work It Girl (WIG)
• Ames Penninton, writer, artist , director of Where’s Danny? and TOPS
• Tiara Skye, award-winning Street Walker/Queer Talker

Hosted by Jaye Hudson, a film programmer and historian specialising in transfemininity in the archive. She runs the project TGirlsonFilm and serves on the selection committee for BFI Flare.

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