queer.red presents!: 'Sex worker actHIVism' 

English below

In het kader van de >House of Hiv-tentoonstelling nodigen Prostitution Information Center (PIC) en IHLIA Queer.red uit met een kortefilmprogramma dat gewijd is aan queer- en trans-, sekswerkers- en hiv-activisme. Gemeenschappen die onevenredig zwaar getroffen zijn door hiv.

We halen herinneringen op aan het activisme uit de jaren tachtig, eren hen die voor onze rechten knokten en delen recentere verhalen van mensen die nu de lange strijd die voor ons ligt aan het bevechten zijn.

Na het filmprogramma volgt een kort gesprek met Sabrina Sanchez van Trans United Europe en directeur van ESWA.

Tickets: gratis, maar reserveren is verplicht via aanmelden@ihlia.nl 

Alle films zijn Engels gesproken of ondertiteld. Scroll voor een overzicht van de getoonde films naar beneden

queer.red presents! has been invited by Prostitution Information Center (PIC) to curate a short film program dedicated to queer and trans, sex worker and HIV activism. Communities who have been disproportionately affected by HIV.

We will recollect 80s activism, honor those who fought for our rights and share more recent stories of those still fighting the long battles ahead.

The film program is followed by a short conversation with Sabrina Sanchez of Trans United Europe and director of ESWA.

Films
1) Our Bodies, Our Business (Edited & directed by Geraldine George, 1989, Canada, 24:22min)

As part of ACT UP NYC’s Diva TV Project, in June 1989 filmmaker Catherine Gund videoed events and activism taking place during the Fifth International Conference on AIDS in Montreal. Included in this footage was Gund’s interviews with sex workers’ rights activists Cheryl Overs, Carol Leigh (AKA the Scarlot Harlot), Valerie Scott, Tracey TIEF, and the late Danny Cockerline and Andrew Hunter.

2) Happy Birthday Marsha! (Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel, 2017, USA, 14 min)

Happy Birthday, Marsha! commemorates Black trans activist, sex worker, HIV activist and drag performer Marsha “Pay it No Mind” Johnson and her role in instigating the 1969 anti-policing riots at the Stonewall Inn, a watershed event for the gay liberation movement. 

3) Lucharé como una perra (I will fight like a bitch) (Guillermo F, Flórez, 2012, USA, 5.52 min)

Lorena Borjas (May 29, 1960 – March 30, 2020) was a Mexican-American transgender and immigrant rights activist, and known as the mother of the transgender Latinx community in Queens, NY. Her work on behalf of immigrant and transgender communities garnered recognition throughout New York City and the United States. 

4) Empower: Sex Worker Perspectives: Giovanna Murillo Rincon (Marianne Chargois, 2018, France, 22:59 min)

EMPOWER Sex Workers Perspectives – Giovanna Murillo Rincon is the first episode in a serie of political portraits of sex workers with heterogeneous trajectories. Combining personal backgrounds, political analyses, and collective resistance strategies, this focus on Giovanna deals with migration issues, and with the involvement in the fight against HIV, and against discriminations made on trans sex workers.

Tickets: Free, but reservations are required via aanmelden@ihlia.nl

All films are English spoken or subtitled

This program is part of the >House of Hiv exhibition