And holy shit, thanks to La Chica Boom, I’ve never watched a film that more accurately represented what the woman of my dreams looks like. Exploding Lineage rushes forward on the strength of innovative women of color. Our bodies have been colonized, oppressed, abused and and and motherfucking reclaimed. In her short film FML, La Chica Boom explores the life of a reckless spirit filled with wanderlust, a penchant for booze, orgasms and yes, a cockroach costume. Fuck yes finally, a film about a brown skinned women of Latin@ descent that comes from her fingertips and isn’t about how fucking oppressed we are. Her short pulled me into the reverie of MIX and portrayed the type of woman I want to fall desperately and unapologetically in love with. A woman that is oblivious to the pull of the ordinary and dives fist first… that also probably wouldn’t remember my first name. Inspired by Lupe Velez and with music by the legendary La Lupe, FML is the type of short that makes you want a feature, a series or a graphic novel based on the main and only character. I needed to see this because my brown body has often felt so disconnected from all the other brown bodies. FML explores the world of the othered other with bravado and a Cristy Roads-esque level of give a fuck. So thank you, Queer Rebels, for including this piece in your showcase.
To be a rebel is to stand defiantly and purposefully in the face of something. The Queer Rebels do just that. It’s not defiance for its own sake: it’s a war cry into the darkness, it’s the ghost in the media machine. But, okay, what exactly was it? I feel like I’m talking about a dream I had to people who have real life things to attend to and maybe that’s the point of it all. To take a pause, strip the layers of excess and meaningless media representation off your queer skin and allow the QRP rebellion to take over.
So I feel it is my solemn duty to take on the AutoStraddle 100 Best Lesbian Fiction and Memoir Books of All Time. Give my personal synopsis on the book and give a review as well as who’d I’d recommend it to and why.
If I’m going to get followers I might as well beef up what I post about
“Our fourth Straddler on the Street is Julia; she chatted with us about burlesque, fat acceptance and making the body political.” via Autostraddle — Straddler On The Street: Julia)
Autostraddle memo books on sale now for $10 !! If you order this weekend, i’ll write something in it for you if you want. email me (riese at autostraddle dot com) after making your order and let me know exactly what you want me to write (if you tell me to think of something myself, i’ll scream and then just write ‘thank you’)! xoxo
