12015-10-12T19:10:43-07:00Anonymous57381plain2015-10-12T19:10:43-07:00Caleb Hawkins"Born in Flames" is a film about women; more specifically, women fighting against sexism. The movie is effective at showing how these women (and thus, the makers of the film) feel about the overwhelming sexism against them. It also discusses the aptly named "Women's Army" which fought to bring light to issues surrounding sexism and prejudice against the LGBTQ community. Worth discussing as well are the trailers for Wildness, Homotopia, and Criminal Queers. Wildness features a sort of club environment where gay people, transgender people, etc. can meet free of judgment. Homotopia discusses concerns with the notion of marriage between gay people, and how it may be harmful. Criminal Queers is a successor to the film (and made by the same people responsible for Homotopia), with the following premise: "Remembering that prison breaks are both a theoretical and material practice of freedom, this film imagines what spaces might be opened up if crowbars, wigs, and metal files become tools for transformation." An interview with the creators also showed an interesting aspect of both films: "the relationship between violence and resistance is central to our films. Thinking with people like Frantz Fanon, we are unwilling to call for a politics of pacifism when the State is still the major arbiter of harm." Calling for peace is useless when the State won't respect that peace. Finally, "An Artist’s Pioneering Masks Shield Us from Future Surveillance" talks about how the government wants to implement technology that may determine details about people from their facial details; these details include gender, sexuality, and race for example. The artist in the article wants to show how wrong this is by creating masks that deliberately mask the detail of one's face or are purposely uncomfortable to show the discomfort of being watched and judged by such technology.