[acc-cca-l] TOMORROW! MAY 2! This is the Feminist Archive: Feature & Short Screening 7PM

[Emily Barton]

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The Feminist Recycling Group presents....The Feminist Feature & Short

Please join us for the final screening of our 2025 series, "This is the Feminist Archive," at CineCycle (129 Spadina Ave) tomorrow, Friday, May 2 at 7PM. We will be screening our Feminist Heritage Minute, Walking the walk: The Toronto Women's Bookstore (2025), and Shelley Niro's Honey Moccasin (1998). The screening will be followed by a short Q&A with Marusya Bociurkiw and Niro (who will join us via zoom). Snacks and refreshments will be provided. Please register here<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/this-is-the-feminist-archive-honey-moccasin-walking-the-walk-tickets-1303281803959?aff=oddtdtcreator>.
>From its beginnings as a single shelf to its lasting legacy as a hub of feminist thought, The Toronto Women's Bookstore weathered firebombings, political controversy, and financial struggle over its 39-year existence. The Feminist Recycling Group wished to honour that legacy with the in-house creation of a new short documentary: Walking the Walk: The Toronto Women's Bookstore. Produced in collaboration with Lexie Corbett, Em Barton, and Marusya Bociurkiw, we are excited to premiere this vibrant history as part of the Feminist Archive.
The first of its kind in Canada made by an Aboriginal filmmaker, Honey Moccasin is set on the fictional Grand Pine Indian Reservation (aka “Reservation X”) and employs a hybrid pastiche of styles that depicts the rivalry between two bars, the Smoking Moccasin and the Inukshuk Cafe, the tale of closeted drag queen/powwow clothing thief Zachery John (Billy Merasty), and the travails of the crusading investigator/storyteller Honey Moccasin (Tantoo Cardinal). An irreverent parody of familiar narrative strategies, Honey Moccasin forges an oppositional aesthetic via its reappropriation of the conventions of melodrama, performance art, cable access, and a “whodunit” style to investigate notions of authenticity, cultural identity, gender roles, and the articulation of contemporary native North American experiences. [via Vtape]
This is the Feminist Archive: Canadian Film & Video 1970s-1990s
The six events in the series, screenings accompanied by conversations with the artists, recontextualize feminist film and video work as constitutive of archival futures; a future imperfect: what will be seen to have been. Too often, feminism is narrated and historicized as wholly outdated/transphobic/racist, invisibilizing BIPOC feminists who were leaders in the Canadian feminist movement and its art practice. Feminists themselves may attempt to disavow previous iterations of the movement. And yet, many examples of early feminist video engage, or invent avant-garde strategies, while also engaging in intersectional interrogations. The delimiting of the history of feminisms implicitly excludes much of the intersectional cultural work that was central to feminist projects. This is especially pertinent as American hegemony – the undoing of abortion rights, the war on trans bodies – continues to inform local and national contexts in Canada. The films and videos in the programs come from the last three decades of the 20th century when feminist political organizing was inextricable with women’s cultural production.

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