diversity and anti-racism in film and television
In this video work, trans Plains-Cree and Scots filmmaker, TJ Cuthand, and her Auntie, Beth Cuthand, share one of their family’s oral stories about a Two Spirit person named Woman Dress. Since the Cree language in which the story was originally told does not have pronouns, Beth Cuthand alternates between he/him and she/her pronouns to …
Described as a “musical horror story” (Condit); as gay, anti-family, and anti-men (Pat Robertson); and interpreted as a lesbian film during the 1984 congressional debates on appropriations for the National Endowment for the Arts (Straayer), Possibly in Michigan tells the tale of Sharon (Jill Sands) and Janice (Karen Skladany) as they are stalked by cannibal …
