Spittin' Change

I took the opportunity to screen the recently released documentary City of Borders at this year’s Los Angeles film Festival. Korean-American filmmaker Yun Suh delivers a compelling and provocative film.  Though at times it privileges a narrative about queer people that presents lgbt people as somehow more capable of overcoming hatred and inequality, a stance that reifies a particular version of queer identity and thereby obscures the ways that queer people participate in oppressive and exploitative ideologies and situations, the documentary offers welcome insights into the complexity of the current socio- political situation in Jerusalem.