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Y'all better quiet down and get the skinny on Sex Change, sister! Newly unearthed archival shorts chart the trans-feminine experience of the 1970s. Trans-sisters cut and spliced the body politic, experimented with emerging medicines, and strutted the streets, dragging the sixties’ sexual liberation into a new era. Whilst cis-sisters and brothers experimented with film and emerging video technologies to capture and confront these subjects thrust into the spotlight. Do student hippies, radical lesbian feminists and the media have what it takes, darling? What does it mean to become visible before the world could handle your existence?
We travel from the hegemonic heart of trans-liberation in Greenwich Village to Baltimore basements adorned with future John Waters starlets. Across the pond are transvestites in Sheffield fighting eviction, crescendoing into a newly discovered disco-fever film set in Ron Storme's legendary Drag Ball in West London. The reels are rolling and the revolutions wearing heels.
The curator will be joined after the screening by two trans-sisters from the seventies.
This programme is curated by Jaye Hudson of TGirlsonFilm.
Transsexuals, dir. Shridhar Bapat, Daniel Landau, Susan Milano, Gary Ormiston & Elyshia Pass, US 1971, 25mins
Nancy, Henri and Elizabeth, dir. Bob Aibel & Lynn Fagan, US 1973, 16mins
All Women Are Equal, dir. Marguerite Paris, UK 1972, 15mins
Sheffield Transvestite Eviction, dir. Yorkshire and North East Film Archive, UK 1972, 6mins
Drag Ball, dir. John Samson, UK 1981, 20mins
We travel from the hegemonic heart of trans-liberation in Greenwich Village to Baltimore basements adorned with future John Waters starlets. Across the pond are transvestites in Sheffield fighting eviction, crescendoing into a newly discovered disco-fever film set in Ron Storme's legendary Drag Ball in West London. The reels are rolling and the revolutions wearing heels.
The curator will be joined after the screening by two trans-sisters from the seventies.
This programme is curated by Jaye Hudson of TGirlsonFilm.
Transsexuals, dir. Shridhar Bapat, Daniel Landau, Susan Milano, Gary Ormiston & Elyshia Pass, US 1971, 25mins
Nancy, Henri and Elizabeth, dir. Bob Aibel & Lynn Fagan, US 1973, 16mins
All Women Are Equal, dir. Marguerite Paris, UK 1972, 15mins
Sheffield Transvestite Eviction, dir. Yorkshire and North East Film Archive, UK 1972, 6mins
Drag Ball, dir. John Samson, UK 1981, 20mins
Contains discussions and depictions of surgery, nudity, outdated terminology, discussion of castration, misgendering and medicalisation of trans bodies.
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03:00 pm
Sat, 24 Jan 2026
Cinema 1
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