THEY NEVER SAID THEY WEREN'T: Projecting transness on ROMEO + JULIET

Fri Jun 16 2023 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

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THEY NEVER SAID THEY WEREN'T: Projecting transness on ROMEO + JULIET
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CJ Miller uses the idea to project transness onto notable films that are just begging for a more gender-expansive & critical lens
About this Event

CELEBRATING PRIDE MONTH

THEY NEVER SAID THEY WEREN'T: Projecting transness on ROMEO + JULIET w/ CJ Kitten Miller – Film Screening + Q&A

"Any character who never addresses their gender can be assumed to be trans." - CJ Kitten Miller

Cisgender people rarely have to announce or address their identities: Being cisgender serves as the assumed default to such a profound degree it often invisibilises itself in processes of normativity. More often than not, media serves to reinforce this assumption of gender that already pervades the dominant and cross-cultural perception of bodies.

For this transcentric film series we will be using this ubiquitous phenomenon against itself: most characters in most films can easily be trans or non-binary because THEY NEVER SAID THEY WEREN'T. We will use this idea to project transness onto notable films that are just begging for a more gender-expansive and critical lens.

With this in mind, we ecstatically present ROMEO + JULIET, dir. Baz Luhrmann (1996, 120 min.).

The classic story of Romeo and Juliet, set in a modern-day city of Verona Beach. The Montagues and Capulets are two feuding families, whose trans children meet and fall in love. They have to hide their love from their families and the public, T4T love affairs are too big and too beautiful for most of the cisheteronormative world to handle after all. And there are other obstacles on the way, like Juliet's possessive trans masc dyke cousin, Tybalt (misogyny lives in all men) and many many sweaty street fights. And though set in 1995 with a scorching 90s soundtrack, this is still the same timeless and tragic story of the "star crossed lovers".

The film screening will be followed by a group discussion led by CJ Kitten Miller, a cinephile and gender educator/consultant, on how transness and gender expansiveness demonstrates itself in the film.

Ticket Price: $15 (in-person event only)

If you have any questions please email [email protected] or phone 323-663-2167.

This event is part of Celebrating Pride Month at PRS, showcasing the incredible artistry, diversity and contributions of the LGBT+ community in Los Angeles and beyond. Please check our calendar for the other Celebrating Pride Month events in June.


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Philosophical Research Society, 3910 Los Feliz Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States

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