Micheal Rice combines autobiography with an exploration into the cognitive dissonance between the wider Black Lives Matter and the contradicting queer and transphobia within African American communities. Stepping into barber shops and confronting the role of religion, this documentary is provocative and insightful as well as full of love for queer and trans Black folk for our fight and defiance against the norms.

This screening includes a Q&A with the director Micheal Rice. 

Micheal Rice is a New York City-based creative director, producer, filmmaker and choreographer with over ten years experience in directing, film production, theatre and choreography, Rice has worked a slew of mediums that include staging & choreographing Off-Broadway, regional and international tour shows, music videos, indie shorts, documentaries and commercials. Micheal rocked the queer film world in 2021 with ‘parTy boi, black diamonds in ice castles’ and is now back with a pandemic-spurred opus in ‘BLACK AS U R’.

Please note: this film uses archive images of historical racism and transphobia, including a brief discussion of lynching.

This is an 18+ event.

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