Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo

Protest and Desire is a video artwork that challenges popular STD / HIV discourse by focusing on how women of color deal with intimacy, sex, and age that relates to STDs and HIV within the landscape of white Europe.

A video essay featuring Marit Östberg candidly exploring the sexual politics of both mainstream ideologies and her own films as a feminist activist probing representations of the nuclear family, queer bodies, and desires that exist apart from hetero-normative practices and aesthetics. Östberg’s musings also investigate porn as a feminist activist medium and the subject of “exoticism” as a form of racism.