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FILM 1577: THE MASK YOU LIVE IN 

Explores how our culture's narrow definition of masculinity is harming our boys, men and society at large and unveils what we can do about it.

http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/tim-richmond-love-bites

FILM 1273: ORCHIDS: MY INTERSEX ADVENTURE

Documentary filmmaker, Phoebe Hart, comes clean on a journey of self-discovery around her hidden intersex condition.

FILM 1232: SUPERSTAR IN A HOUSEDRESS

"Jackie Curtis is not a drag queen. Jackie is an artist. A pioneer without a frontier." -- Andy Warhol. Superstar in a Housedress examines the life and legend of Warhol transvestite superstar Jackie Curtis who was a poet, playwright, performer, and one of the great personalities of his time. Jackie both lived and performed sometimes as a man, sometimes as a woman - and died tragically of a drug overdose under bizarre circumstances when he was only 38. The film features on-camera interviews with actor Harvey Fierstein who played Jackie's mother in "Americka Cleopatra" when he was 18, Ellen Stewart, founder of LaMama Experimental Theater Club, John Vaccaro, founder of the Playhouse of the Ridiculous, Paul Morrissey, Director of the Andy Warhol films, and surviving superstars Holly Woodlawn and Joe Dallesandro, plus 24 other friends and colleagues of Jackie's. The film includes never-before-seen video and film clips of Jackie performing in stage plays including "Femme Fatale," "Glamour, Glory and Gold," and "Vain Victory: The Vicissitudes of the Damned." and cabarets. The music of jazz musician and composer Paul Serrato is featured, as is the photography of Jack Mitchell who took more photographs of Curtis and the Warhol crowd than any other professional. Interviews with media personalities, writers and editors put the work and life of Jackie Curtis in historical perspective. Narrated by Lily Tomlin.

- Written by Craig Highberger

… OF THE DAY

I watched the documentary Grayson Perry: Who Are You? (I missed it last night)  Which features the artist making portraits of people to discover what kind of masks people wear in public and how they perceive themselves and how they are seen by others.  One of the people he spoke to and immortalized was Rylan, the X-factor star and Big Brother winner, he is depicted in my blind drawing.  He also made a pot symbolizing Chris Huhne and works representing a man who had struggled with gender identity and a woman who converted to Islam after a bad start in life.

BOOK 105: WAYS OF SEEING: JOHN BERGER

The book Ways of Seeing was written by Berger and Dibb, along with Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox, and Richard Hollis. The book consists of seven numbered essays: four using words and images; and three essays using only images.