The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the first class of African-American women to sing their way to fame and fortune. Blues divas such as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Alberta Hunter created and promoted a working-class vision of blues life that provided an alternative to the Victorian gentility of middle-class manners. In their lives and music, blues women presented themselves as strong, independent women who lived hard lives and were unapologetic about their unconventional choices in clothes, recreational activities, and bed partners. Blues singers disseminated a Black feminism that celebrated emotional resilience and sexual pleasure, no matter the source.

I Always Said Yes is a portrait of pioneering filmmaker Wakefield Poole, whose careers as dancer, ch...

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home whe...

Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Dia...

Two actresses take us through a series of 'raps' and sketches about what it means to be beautiful an...

France is at the heart of Madonna's life. She is inspired by French culture and its values and has s...

Get to know the series Gelboys better through a documentary that tells the behind-the-scenes story b...

A documentary that proposes a conversation about the way children are praised. While girls are often...
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An intimate portrait of Matthew Shepard, the gay young man murdered in one of the most notorious hat...

Packed with drama, high emotions and cliff-hanger moments, Australia Says Yes is the intimate and pe...

About the English musician, composer, record producer, singer, writer, and visual artist, Brian Pete...

Canada as a refuge for LBGTQ+ immigrants: Yazan from Iraq, Nata from Central Africa, Aida from Iran ...

Johanna Dohnal, whose political career spans three decades, was one of the very first explicitly fem...

Documentary about Moa Martinson.

Jojo, a 17-year-old girl from Bangkok, is about to graduate from high school. After her friend Q rev...

I'm a Porn Star follows the lives of guys in the neighborhood who are likely a lot more famous than ...

Sean and Adrian, a Two-Spirit couple, are determined to rewrite the rules of Native American culture...

An investigation of Edward Brezinski, an ambitious, charismatic Lower East Side painter hell-bent on...

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