Queer Farmer Film Project! A film narrated by queer farmer Jonah, filmed by Sammy Lyons, about connecting queer farmers.
Queer Farmer Film Project! A film narrated by queer farmer Jonah, filmed by Sammy Lyons, about connecting queer farmers.
If you’re in the US, it’s showing November 6th at the San Francisco Trans Film Festival, plus if you’re an agrarian queer you could get in touch with them cos the project is ongoing. From their blog:
“We seek self identified queer farmers anywhere along the LGBTQI spectrums- and specifically: people of color, older folks, those from many generations of farmers, CSA farmers, urban farmers, queer/feminist/faerie farmers living and working on land projects or in intentional communities, transpeople, genderqueers, and intersex farmers, those living in the Midwest or South, femmes, farmer teachers, and all others with dirt under their nails who are fabulous.”
My family were agrarian labourers who moved urban due to rural economic collapse during my childhood, and there are qualities I value about both that heritage and the urban alternative.
Self-sustaining communities can be idyllic and/or really isolating for queers and independent women. Contemporary gay and feminist identities do owe some debt to the emergence of city dwelling, if only for the related lifestyles premised upon urban access to concentrated cultural capital and social mobility which facilitated sex radicals experimentation with social roles beyond economic dependence on traditional families.
OTOH, I’m a queer city farmer and I love projects linking minorities and queers and linking people to ways that their social politics and transition to sustainable living is doable. In summary: I wanna see this doco!
