THE LESBIAN HAND

Until very recently, depictions of lesbians in the movies have ranged from apparitional to vampiric, salacious to sensationalistic, suggestive to exploitative, melodramatic to horrific. This video explores the portrayals of sapphic sexuality in the cinema from the 1930s to the present through the actions of the hand: touching, holding, feeling, grasping, shaking, exploring, penetrating, reaching out, pulling back, letting go. What are the trajectories of the lesbian hand in the romantic comedy, the thriller, the historical drama, the horror flick? How does the reediting of these lesbian hands release them from the surveillance of the straight male gaze? How does this reanimation of the lesbian hand unleash other, untapped desires, fantasies, possibilities?

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SHORTS: POCARI SWEAT

Here comes the heat! Six shorts drenched with sweat, tears, saliva, slime, and other bodily wonders, all for your yearning pleasure.