The documentary will feature interviews with five black people: a disabled person in South Africa a queer New York rapper a PhD student and blogger in Missouri an agender writer of work on body positivity and a trans woman. Sprawled on many of the profiles were “no fats, no femmes” - along with things like “no blacks, no Asians, no ballroom kids.” Seeing the frequency of such language inspired Lewis years later to create a feature-length documentary to interrogate and explore race, desire and body image, and the ways in which they’re informed by media, pop culture and capitalism. While an undergrad at the historically black, all-male Morehouse College, he-she used queer social networking and dating sites to meet people. Originally from Atlanta, Lewis is a second-year graduate student in media studies at the New School by day and “cultural worker, performance artist and freedom fighter” by night.
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