A stranded dreamer, a bored typist and a defiant transqueerian space captain attempt to rediscover joy in a fantastical #StopAsianHate music video propelled by dance and animation. Outrageously underrepresented in the UK arts, 87% of the creative team were East and/or Southeast Asian or South Asian. Over half were LGBTIQA+, with nearly a third identifying as trans/non-binary/genderqueer. The team included neurodivergent and disabled artists. From the pain of coronaracism and a lifetime of bigotry and invisibility comes this beautiful, fantastical, outspoken, and epic voyage of truth - infusing vivid dance solos, dreamy piano and quirky animated interjections! The track was written by The Mollusc Dimension, a "transqueerian" British Chinese artist and directed by Darius Shu and the artist. Inspired by #StopAsianHate campaigns, solidarity placards by community members and allies also make an appearance, as do paper-mâché "cishet norms" and K-pop-inspired intensity.

Asians Have Feelings Too

Dr. XYZ is an exercise in queering the healthcare information film (shot on 16mm) exploring the critical state of trans healthcare in the UK. It employs verbatim drag-satire to re-enact an archive of healthcare experiences recorded with Birmingham's trans+ community.

Dr. XYZ: A Medical Drag Transthology

This is an ironic, voyeuristic, sensual and trans-re-vision of that meme and the concept of performativity. hotgirlsummer was one of the most popular memes of summer 2019. That summer I was in Lesbos on an island with a group of creative queer women having a very clichè week of workshops and pilgrimage to our goddess Sappho.


One of the workshop’s tasks was filming a short essay movie and, although the many stray cats were a purrfect clichè topic for a dyke week in Lesbos, I was just fascinated by one thing only, the calippo strawberry ice-lollipop. The sun and sounds of the sea and heat and calippos just turned me into an egocentric polysexual polymorphous and so 

Hot Goy Summer

La Tortillera was developed by Xandra Ibarra as a live performance in 2004 when she performed under the alias of La Chica Boom. The performance was later archived for camera in 2014. 

, Ibarra takes on her own racial bondage to hot sauce, tacos, and demographic panic in “Tortillera.” She dances a 60’s border corrida as a camp version of a Mexican housewife, makes tacos with her panties, and “spreads her seed” onto tacos with her “Tapatio cock.”

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