video night
Join us at 7 pm on Friday, Feb. 2, as Herland presents The Aggressives. In this supersmart documentary, six New York City women attempt to set the record straight (so to speak), speaking candidly about sexual identity and their own experiences as lesbians and as women.
Filmmaker Daniel Peddle’s scrappy and astute group portrait of a half dozen New York City butches of color is a five-year overview of their lives and loves that takes in the underground “ball” scene (a la Paris Is Burning) and explores the phenomenon of the “aggressive” identity. Neither female-to-males nor drag kings—these wonderfully articulate women speak with charm, humor, and bold honesty about class, race, gender, and their own womanhood.