Credit: Nina Paley
Some mysterious force is preventing me from posting this directly via Nina’s tweet but haha I can do it via this one so nyah, Mysterious Force.
It’s brilliant indeed.
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Some mysterious force is preventing me from posting this directly via Nina’s tweet but haha I can do it via this one so nyah, Mysterious Force.
It’s brilliant indeed.
That’s genius. The last owner, the true owner, the forever owner. Yikes.
Here it is not on XTwitter
https://vimeo.com/199418954
I highly recommend the whole movie (it’s available on internet archive).
Historical. Literally and figuratively. Mushroom clouds at the end. What a portent.
Seder-Masochism (I second the high recommendation) is available on Vimeo here: https://vimeo.com/263398514
I am of the impression that This Land Is Mine is intentionally both a part of Seder-Masochism and a separate short. It works very well in both ways.
I noticed that the movie at link posted by chigau (thank you) is slightly revised; Paley has changed the Zionist characters to be more modern and less Orthodox-looking. It also points to a page that lists the characters (“can’t tell the characters without a pogrom!”, clever). Very helpful list, with a capsule history.
Nina is brilliant – here’s the first piece of her work (also from Seder-Masochism) that I ever saw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGiWITGArLI
I’m not that wild about her ‘Terf-Tranny Alliance’ idea (she has a good friend who’s gender critical and trans-identified) but she has thrown herself into the ‘gender wars’:
https://store.ninapaley.com/product/gender-wars-playing-cards/
I adore Nina Paley and her work. She’s one of those people who, like Ophelia, in whom I am in awe.
I do agree with her TERF-Tranny Alliance; if we are to destroy the cult before it destroys our culture and the bodies and minds of our children, we absolutely cannot afford to alienate the people who have already been cult members (as I was) but are now desisters, or detransitioners, or gender critical.
After all, being gender critical is not to be against people who have ever believed in ‘transgender’, it’s to be in favour of the freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and freedom of personal choice which the cult would like to see removed from everyone else.
Allow men and women to dress however they wish (within normal, decent, cultural norms) and name themselves whatever they like, provided it’s not rude, but be firm about boundaries, about the facts (especially about sex being immutable) and about the rights of others being inviolable, regardless of the tantrums some people throw when denied their desired exercise of privileges. Remove the fiction of ‘legal sex’, make single-sex spaces sacrosanct, and get rid of the whole concept of ‘gender identity’ from media, the law, and especially education.
Most important of all, stop the horrific abuse of children, adolescents, and young adults by the medical profession. No more drugs, binders, or surgeries on anyone until the root cause of their distress has been dealt with – no longer must anyone tell a distressed person of any age that the entire reason for their suffering is that there’s something wrong with their body, and it can be fixed with hormones and butchery.
I’m with tigger here. Nina is gender critical and takes no prisoners, and she’s suffered a serious blow to her career for it (in a word, she’s been cancelled.) Like our host, she’s a woman of integrity.
I have no beef with old school transsexuals who are gender critical. I may think they’d have been better off had they found a less invasive way to deal with their issues, but that’s their business, not mine.
By the way, Nina is a proponent of Open culture, or Free-culture movement; she opposes copyrights. Meaning her work is always free to share or download.
A few years ago a friend and I went up to Santa Cruz (California) to see Seder-Masochism and Sita Sings the Blues, and we got to meet Nina.
Brilliant films, both of them. Sita Sings the Blues combines Hindu mythology, old blues songs (sung by Annette Hanshaw,) and autobiographical heartbreak.
Thanks to all above who made me aware of Nina, her work, and heterodorx. I watched This land Is Mine last night with my wife and we both enjoyed it. We’ll track down her longer work. I have also listened to the first three full length episodes of Heterodorx today. Very good. It also led to me finding an essay she wrote about her experiences in sex positive San Francisco. She was really open about how and why she went from being deeply immersed in that culture, including porn and sex work, to feeling that it was in many ways harmful and abusive and that a degree of judgeiness was maybe needed. I think a lot of her views in that essay would match well with discussions we have had here about porn and sex work.