A Queer Review of the Austin Film Festival (2023)
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.

While Andrea unfolds a labyrinth on the ground of her new home, Fran verifies that his efforts to recover the wisdom of the elder bear fruit and Flo plants a yew surrounded by friends. They made a strange decision: living in a town. However, they affirm that their posture is something normal. They say that it is the others who take unusual decisions and they are obligated to confront complicated challenges: like staying in a territory when not finding a rental house; like to keep organizing activities when the money the association was waiting for was used to buy designer ashtrays; like not manifestating when the corporations want to do fracking test in their region.
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
If your upbringing was anything like mine, where the TV acted as an additional parent- there are so many new stories and perspectives to explore.
The story continues in 'Tall Girl 2' as Jodi finds herself playing the lead role in the school's musical production.
Disney has kept its word and allowed a new generation of Black and/or African storytellers to tell their own original stories. The question remains, will the public keep their word?
For the entirety of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Marion remains in full control of both her body and her personality, a rarity for female characters at the time of the film’s release. She’s granted depth with personal demons from her past and emotional vulnerability when the situation deems it appropriate for her to grow alongside Indy. She avidly rejects the notion of being anything other than a sassy, humane rebel, and Indy’s equal in every way. This she does while still maintaining her femininity.
Tarantino's alternative history of the 1960's uncritically repeats the era's sexist and racist stereotypes.