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dallasvoice.comCriterion Films celebrate diversity in all its forms Chris Azzopardi | ScreenQueenTwitter: @chrisazzopardi Paris Is BurningIn Paris Is Burning, a strut is a defiant act, an exertion of suppressed power.
In the mid-to-late 1980s, when the landmark documentary was filmed, these moves couldn’t be showcased just anywhere. Today the same is true, as the call to end violence against trans people and to confront transphobia persists.
Given the number of trans people killed since the doc was released (and the surge of trans murders currently making headlines), that call seems, still, to fall on deaf ears.
And so white, queer, non-trans director Jennie Livingston’s 1990 film remains fiercely important, as much a time capsule as a reflection on how
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