Student Voices. Queer Experiences.
From the beginning of the program to the end of the two-week San Francisco immersion, student programmers touched on their experiences through ruminative blog posts and informal, in-the-moment, unedited video reflections. They highlighted their experiences traveling to San Francisco, exploring the Castro District, and even losing themselves in a larger, brighter Queer community to shape and re-shape who they are.
Fuck Gentrifying Tech Companies
How does one deal with a duality of emotions from a new-found acceptance for oneself while being shocked into the horror of classism?
If You are not a Lesbian, then do you even like Boobs? A compilation of my invisible queerness.
I am dating a man, but sometimes I think that if I was dating a woman, maybe people on the street would recognize me as queer.
The Silent T: Internalized Transphobia Within the Queer Community
While it seems that my identity within the LGBT+ community would not often contradict itself, in fact, it often does.
Queer Representation in TV and Film
People in the Queer community are no strangers when it comes to being underrepresented. With every year that passes more and more people are coming out and yet that doesn’t seem to translate to what we watch.
Queering the Map
If you were to google the Castro District, the return states “is synonymous with gay culture.”
Never Give Up
At the Frameline QT brunch, I was surrounded by a number of women and trans folk—filmmakers from all over the world—directors, producers, and actors who brought their films to the Frameline film festival, I couldn’t help but ask, “what is the most important piece of advice you would give to a budding new filmmaker?”
Meeting a Legend
When I was living in Oregon at 19, I developed a passion for queer history. I remember going to the public library and renting every LGBTQ+ documentary I could get my hands.
Give Me Some Space Bitch: My Thoughts on Institutions Making me Small(ish)
I grew up with the idea that women must be small being subconsciously (and consciously) drilled into my head.
castro tides
i clench my fingers together and watch
as they call him a girl
watch my own suffering mirrored in another man
like i have never seen it before.
Vita and Virginia
Going to each movie so far has been a treat. However, out of the 13 I have seen so far, my favorite one is still the opening night film.
Reflection
Going on this trip reminded me (as I have needed to be reminded) that there is no one way to be trans.
Reflection
During my stay in San Francisco I found myself roaming the streets of the Mission and Castro districts.
Dear Dad: I Know you Wanted a Son, is a Dyke Okay Instead? (or) I Used to be Silenced, but That is No More.
Your tomboy, your overall wearing, baseball cap donning, kid that you raised: she’s queer. I just thought you should know.
Straight Up
Although there were many films I liked a lot, thirteen to be exact, the one that stuck with me the most was Straight Up.
The Sum of Our Parts
Am I simply the sum of my parts—my flesh, emotion, intellect, thoughts, and experiences?
A Love Affair with OCD and the word Freak
I am terrified of growth sometimes. It is hard for me to imagine growing without my friends, growing without my partner, growing into someone that I do not know yet.