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Dyke Community Activists to screen Hand on the Pulse |
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| Film documents the life of Joan Nestle by Tina Gianoulis - Special to the SGN The entry page of Joan Nestle's "At-Home With Joan" website opens with the caveat: "You are on the verge of entering the home of a 66-year-old fem Lesbian woman. If you find explicit words about love, lust, play, creativity, illness and social concerns obscene, you will not be comfortable in my home." This frank, yet playful, warning encapsulates much of Nestle's personality and philosophy -- if she is not much interested in a revolution that does not involve dancing, neither does she have time for a dance that doesn't try to create some social change. Nestle's life and activist career are the subject of the documentary film Hand on the Pulse, which is being screened by Dyke Community Activists at the University Friends Center, 4001 9th Ave. N.E., this Saturday, February 17 at 7 pm. Made by Joyce Warshow in 2002, Hand on the Pulse uses interviews, photos and archival footage to trace Nestle's life. Beginning with her childhood in 1940's Brooklyn, where she was raised by her widowed mother, the film follows Nestle into the Greenwich Village Gay bars, where she came out in the 1950s, through the many social and political movements in which she was active, and into her careers as teacher, writer, Lesbian historian, and archivist. Nestle's contribution to the queer community is undeniable. In her books, including The Persistent Desire: A Femme Buch Reader, A Restricted Country, and A Fragile Union, Nestle places Lesbian and Gay issues in the context of a wide variety of social struggles and calls for action in her own inimitable voice, brash and sexy, working class, Jewish, and political. In 1973, she helped found the Lesbian Herstory Archives, housing them in her own home for twenty-five years. The archives themselves are a good symbol of Nestle's work -- rooted in the past, fascinating in the present, and fighting for the future. Hand on the Pulse will be accompanied by the short film Fashion Resistance to Militarism, which offers creative ways to combat the subtle incorporation of war into our everyday lives. Donations of $5-$15 will be collected for Dyke Community Activists and the Global Women's Fund. No one will be turned away for lack of money. |
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