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Subject: Friday Film Club �P��q�v�| January Attraction

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Date Posted: 02:58:00 01/21/04 Wed

Venus Boyz
A FILM JOURNEY THROUGH A UNIVERSE OF FEMALE MASCULINITY
January 30, 2004 7pm @ LT2, Sino Building

A film by Gabriel Baur
2001
104 minutes
English subtitles

A departure for an odyssey to transgendered worlds, where women become men - some for a night, others for their whole lives. What motivates them. What changes take place? What do they dream of? Masculinity and transformation as performance, subversion or existential necessity. An intimate film about people who create intermediate sexual identities.

Words from the crew:
Judith Halberstam (gender theorist): Masculinity and femininity are social genders that are produced not simply by men and women, each performing their appropriate social genders - men performing masculinity, woman performing femininity. But there are always crossovers, there are always women performing masculinity and men performing femininity. So that gender that we call masculinity has been produced by both men and women.
Gabriel Baur (director): VENUS BOYZ is a film about Drag Kings and transgendered personalities, but above all, it is a film about people who take risks and refuse to succumb to their problems. Instead, they become creative, seek a new identity beyond the field of tension between man and woman.

* For more information, please visit www.venusboyz.net.

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