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Sticky Impulse

Butch & Other Queer Masculinities Part II

November 26, 2019
VIVO Media Arts Centre Microcinema

This edition of Sticky Impulse further explores understandings of queer masculinities—queer masculinities in place and through time; internalized and embodied; rejected and embraced.

Researcher and Curator Sophie Roberge
Roberge was Archivist at the Crista Dahl Media Library &  Archives in 2018. This year she is our Archivist-in-Residence. Roberge will be creating a digital guide to the queer materials found in the archives, providing insight into the history of queer art and activism at VIVO.  Every Queer Thing: A Subject Guide to the Queer Materials at the CDMLA will be launched on the archive’s website in late 2019. Roberge is also guest curator of first two iterations of Sticky Impulse.

Program

Lest I Burn
Shani Mootoo, 1991, 4:00
Mootoo stakes a claim through visual and aural signs surrounding Vancouver’s Commercial Drive neighbourhood … This is Amazon Land.

Not Like That: Diary of a Butch-a-Phobe
Maureen Bradley, 1994, 13:00
Looking at the artist’s internalized fears of appearing butch, this video attempts to overcome this particular type of homophobia that is evident in queer culture.

Butch Tits
Jen Crothers, 2010, 3:00
Butch women discuss the sometimes complicated relationship they have with their breasts.

Boi Oh Boi!
Thirza Cuthand, 2012, 9:00
After a long period in life identifying as a Butch Lesbian, Cuthand considers transitioning to male.