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Friday,
March 6 at 7:30pm
Rethinking
Sex
On
the Downlow
dir.
Abigail Child, US, 2007, video, 56 mins, color
Director
Abigail Child in person
On
the Downlow presents
an intimate portrait of four men negotiating their bisexual
desire within the African-American community of Cleveland, Ohio.
These men self-describe themselves as "dipping on both
sides of the fence". The film showcases their secret lives
and aspirations as it reveals the complex intersections of sexuality,
race, class and family in contemporary middle America. With
screen short experimental films and videos by Abigail Child.
This
film is presented in conjunction with Rethinking
Sex, a conference on gender and sexuality studies
at the University of Pennsylvania from March 4 through March
6. What are the intellectual and political gains of movements
for sexual freedom over the past three decades? And where are
we now? Nearly twenty-five years ago, Gayle Rubin’s essay Thinking
Sex (1984) inaugurated the contemporary field of sexuality
studies. This conference brings Rubin and thirty other key figures
in gender and sexuality studies to consider the history of the
field as well as its current strengths and potential.
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