
Synopsis
Criminal Queers visualizes a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex and toward a world without walls. RememberingΒ that prison breaks are both a theoretical and material practice of freedom, this film imagines what spaces might be opened up if crowbars, wigs, and metal files become tools for transformation.
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