[SSEX BBOX] is a social justice web series and documentary that aspires to create sexual awareness worldwide. We believe that sex should be discussed, explored, felt and consciously experienced more “outside of the box”.
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Sex, Gender, Politics, and everything in between
[SSEX BBOX] is a social justice web series and documentary that aspires to create sexual awareness worldwide. We believe that sex should be discussed, explored, felt and consciously experienced more “outside of the box”.
Watch this!
[SSEX BBOX] Episode 1
Also available in Spanish and Portuguese
[SSEX BBOX] sexuality outside of the box: The Unfinished Sexual Revolution” is the first web documentary series exploring sexuality as a means for social change.
[SSEX BBOX] is a social justice web series and documentary that aspires to create sexual awareness worldwide. We believe that sex should be discussed, explored, felt and consciously experienced more “outside of the box”. Our goal is to expand consciousness, dismantle shame, isolation, and ignorance and facilitate community, education and awareness by questioning archaic and obsolete understandings of gender and sexuality and offering information, conversations and new ideas. Taking viewers on a tour through São Paulo, San Francisco, Berlin, and Barcelona, [SSEX BBOX]reveals the many faces of sexuality internationally, and explores their collisions with censorship and civic borders.
Currently, film crews in these four cities are documenting “sexuality outside the box” through interviews with sex educators, artists, personalities, and people from a diverse range of sexual orientations and genders, including gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, genderqueer, and straight folks on topics such as gender, sexual orientation, sex work, polyamory, and relationship skills.
[SSEX BBOX] exposes our commonalities and our uniqueness when it comes to gender expression and sexuality.
Our commitment extends beyond sexuality to all human rights, including access to knowledge and information. With this in mind, we decided to make it easier for our audience to benefit from and enjoy [SSEX BBOX].
By using the web to distribute our films, we plan to help create a community for all people; queer, straight, within and outside of the gender binary. Our commitment is to create a space stimulating conversations about sexuality and helping others find out more about themselves and their desires.
[SSEX BBOX] will release 10 episodes from January to November 2012. Each episode will focus on a specific subject.
[SSEX BBOX] web series is supported by the Center for Sex & Culture and has also received advising and consultation from sexologist, Carol Queen, Ph.D and psychotherapist and expressive arts therapist, Therese Noel Allen, MA, MFT.
Dr. Carol Queen is a writer, speaker, educator and activist with a Ph.D. in human sexuality. Beginning her work as an organizer in the lesbian/gay community, Carol co-founded one of the first gay youth groups in the United States and later led work in what was the emerging international bisexual community. As an academic writer and teacher, Carol tends to utilize her own experience and that of her communities.http://www.carolqueen.com/
Therese Noël Allen, MA, MFT is a psychotherapist, expressive arts therapist and consultant specializing in healing sexual trauma with a sex positive lens within the LGBTQQI community. Through in-depth study abroad and intensive work in the local non-profit sector, Therese has apprenticed and come to practice, teach, and consult on integrated approaches to psycho-social-spiritual healing, include “somatic” practices working through the body and erotic experience. Therese is in private practice in San Francisco. http://thereseallenmft.com/
The Center for Sex & Culture’s mission is to provide judgment-free education, cultural events, a library/media archive, and other resources to audiences across the sexual and gender spectrum; and to research and disseminate factual information, framing and informing issues of public policy and public health.http://www.sexandculture.org/
TW: Fat shaming!
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the short doc i made
this is AMAAAAZING!!! SO GREAT YOU SHOULD BE SO PROUD OF THIS!!!
I watched the entire thing with my mouth wide open; it’s been a while since I’ve had friends who felt like they could talk about my body like this and admittedly, it brought a lot of those feelings back. Which I think is so important for me to remember.
I think you’re so brave and a gifted filmmaker and I’m SO looking forward to meeting you at the wedding!!! xoxoxoxoxo
the way you constructed this documentary is so powerful and interesting and i think you are so great and i can’t wait to meet you!! <3
let the revolution of movies about queer women of color begin!
Mosquita y Mari is a coming of age story that focuses on a tender love between two young Chicanas that struggles to find its place in their lives and in today’s world. Yolanda and Mari are growing up in Huntington Park, Los Angeles and have only known loyalty to one thing: family. Growing up in immigrant households, both girls are expected to prioritize the well-being of their families. Yolanda, an only child, delivers straight A’s and the hope of the American Dream while Mari, the eldest, shares economic responsibilities with her undocumented mother who scrambles to make ends meet. When Mari moves in across the street from Yolanda, they maintain their usual life routine, until an incident at school thrusts them into a friendship and into unknown territory. As their friendship grows, a yearning to explore their strange yet beautiful connection surfaces. Lost in their private world of unspoken affection, lingering gazes, and heart-felt confessions of uncertain futures, Yolanda’s grades begin to slip while Mari’s focus drifts away from her duties at a new job. Mounting pressures at home collide with their new-found desires thus driving Yolanda and Mari’s relationship to the edge, forcing them to choose between their obligations to others and staying true to each other.
For more info: www.mosquitaymari.com
Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling’s much buzzed about sex scene from Blue Valentine. In the scene, Ryan Gosling goes down on her. This was apparently the reason the film originally received an NC-17 rating. Check it out. Enjoy.
“TRANS” is a feature documentary now in post-production, scheduled for exclusive release in selected festivals and markets in early 2012. For more information, go to TransTheMovie.com. It offers a “up-close and very personal journey into the transgender world.” Watch the trailer.
Read more: http://www.andersoncooper.com/2011/11/15/trans-documentary/#ixzz1du3xjXvkTRANS (by SexSmartFilms)
“You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations. Your people will wear cardigans, and drink highballs. We will sell our bracelets by the road sides, you will play golf, and enjoy hot hors d’oeuvres. My people will have pain and degradation. Your people will have stick shifts. The gods of my tribe have spoken. They have said, “Do not trust the Pilgrims, especially Sarah Miller.”
Orchids: My Intersex Adventure, by Phoebe Hart
Documentary filmmaker, Phoebe Hart, comes clean on her journey of self-discovery to embrace her future and reconcile the past shame and family secrecy surrounding her intersex condition.
http://www.orchids-themovie.com/
I just saw this movie at the Porn Film Festival in Berlin. It’s brilliant, poignant, and simply awesome.
Right Here All Over, by Alex Mallis & Lily Henderson
A new angle on Occupy Wall Street reveals the strong micro community that has formed there.
Cold Star - by Kai Stänicke
A boy experiences new desires while watching a man at an indoor swimming pool. Forced up the diving platform by a rowdy gang, he receives unexpected help.
Cold Star is a mixture of short and music video. A hybrid, that connects the emotions of a short with beats and lyrics of music. The film is an appeal for acceptance of your own and others sexual identity.
END:CIV - Resist or Die Trailer
END:CIV examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations.
Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV asks: “If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?”